Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 49

Description

Woman's dress. Bottle green cashmere. Ruffles embroidered in same color. Skirt long with train, ruffles horizontal across front, four vertical at side, and two at back. Deeper bottom ruffle. Horizontal band of drapery with self-bow across fullness around knee height in back. Waist fitted Basque, buttoned from neck, outlined with ruffle. Sleeves tight and long ending in ruffle.

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1875 - circa 1880

Provenance

Notes

Donor: Coryell Collection, 1946.