Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 117

Description

Dress for “coming out” party. Heavy arm, beauty, silk with huge sleeves and trimming of ermine and beads.

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1895

Time Period

19th Century

Provenance

Notes

Provenance: Displayed in store window (Duval’s) New York, 1957. Worn by Mary Bacon (b. 1876), daughter of Joseph Bacon (d. 1896). Donor: Miss Elizabeth Bacon, 1950.