Woman's Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Woman's Dress

Entry/Object ID

CW 245

Description

Woman's Dress. White surah fabric (soft twilled silk fabric), purple, and gold. Velvet trimming, leg-of-mutton sleeves, bell skirt, wide boned girdle. Fair condition. Dress came from the Headley family of Fallsington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Circa 1895. Transcribed from Original Accession Record

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Fallsington, Bucks, Pennsylvania

Provenance

Notes

Dress came from the Headley family of Fallsington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. "The Headley family was a prominent and socially-active family from Fallsington, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The Headley family papers, circa 1788- 1981, document several generations of the Headley family and related family members, particularly the family of Charles Moon Headley (b. 1865) and Elizabeth Schurz Headley (b. 1871), including their daughters Alice Headley Woodruff (1894-1989) and Eleanor Christina Headley (b. 1897). " (Source: University of Pennsylvania Library: http://dla.library.upenn.edu/cocoon/dla/pacscl/ead.pdf?id=PACSCL_HSP_HF01)