Gown, Long

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Genesee Country Village & Museum

Name/Title

Gown, Long

Entry/Object ID

G2011.067

Description

Entirely hand-stitched infant dress. The skirt is made from a printer handkerchief with a wavy vine border cut to shape and finished with blanket stitch, and polka-dot fields. Seems to have been a pink ground originally. The skirt is opened up through the back; gathered onto the base of a plain cotton bodice with a straight neckline and short raglan sleeves edged with some of the handkerchief border. Double drawstring in the waist and another around the whole neckline. This appears to have been reworked from a smaller, probably waistless dress.

Collection

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Category

Infant, Dress
Historic Costume

Clothing/Dress/Costume Details

Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume

Dress

Clothing Sex

Unisex

Textile Details

Fabric

Cotton

Color

White

Made/Created

Date made

1815 - 1850

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

American