Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 57

Description

Electric blue lightweight wool, trimming of material of same color with stripes of embossed velvet in brown, red and blue; bottom of skirt with square scallops of velvet over pleated ruffle of material; elaborate overdress with bustle drapery; waist fitted and boned, buttoned with blue cut steel buttons, trimming and collar of velvet at back of basque. Tag reads ‘Darlington Runt & Co. Phila.’

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1880

Time Period

19th Century

Provenance

Notes

Donor: Coryell Collection, 1946.