Name/Title

Dress

Entry/Object ID

G2006.153

Description

Girl’s dress, mostly machine stitched. Made of plaid merino wool or wool-cotton mix, having red, green, black, blue and yellow on white ground. Wide flaring body on the bias, no waist, with diagonal opening in front, edged with black velvet ribbon and closed with flat black glass buttons. Coat sleeves with wide band of black velvet ribbon around bottom, and above the hem. Tiny standing collar. Lined with tan lining cambric. No pocket.

Collection

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1865 - 1870

Notes

User Age: Child Gender: Female

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

American

Lexicon

Search Terms

Dress, Child, Female, Girl, machine stitched, merino, cambric