Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 185

Description

Woman's dress. Changeable brown taffeta. Very full skirt gathered in tiny pleats into Basque, pointed in front with cord. Fastened inn front (hooks), long sleeves, high neck with 1-inch standing collar. Sleeves have little caps over top and slightly bell at bottom. Sleeves and front are trimmed with narrow fancy brown silk braid. Boned. Quaker.

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1830

Provenance

Notes

Worn by Mary Drinker Cope Haines, wife of John Smith Haines of Wyck.