Name/Title
DressEntry/Object ID
CW 226Description
An unusual dress of plum-colored silk with hand painted trimming a design of yellow daisies, forget-me-nots, and leaves. The silk has front panel of pleats in the center the painted design from waist to floor. On each side a velvet panel beginning well below the hip, topped with a puffed trimming of the silk—finished at bottom with scallops and below 4 little pleated ruffles of the silk. Over the fullness at the back draped rounded pieces outlined with the painting and at the bottom puffs of the silk with painted flowers between. The waist fitted, pointed back and front. Standing collar, buttoned, 15 interesting buttons. A yoke-shaped wreath of the painted flowers.Made/Created
Date made
1885Time Period
19th CenturyProvenance
Notes
Provenance: From the trousseau of Mary Kelly (donor’s mother), who married John A. Bradley, May 1885.
Donor: Mrs. Michael M. O’Brien.