Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 228

Description

Typical early ‘gay ninety’ dress. Iridescent green and gold soft silk dress. Small all over leaf design, trimmed in border of green and gold beads with lace and bead puffs at back of high collar and at wrist of long sleeves with small puffed top.

Made/Created

Date made

circa 1890

Time Period

19th Century

Provenance

Notes

Donor: Mrs. Chauncey G. Paxson, May 1957.