Dress

Object/Artifact

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Saco Museum

Name/Title

Dress

Entry/Object ID

2025.10.1

Description

Pale yellow two-piece dress with lace trim. The dress fabric is similar to, if not, dotted Swiss fabric. High lace collar and yoke. The leg of mutton sleeves, pleated with lace panels, the fabric embroidered with silk in a feather stitch. The lower part of the sleeve are panels of lace with bands bands of the embroidered dress fabric; the lace is missing from the bottom of the left sleeve. Full skirt with vertical panels of lace on the front; no lace on the back. They alternate with three pleats of feather stitch embroidery. Above the hem there are three rows of applied fabric with feather stitch embroidery. Silk ribbon sewn in above the inside of the hem. The skirt waistband is made of the same silk ribbon.

Made/Created

Date made

1890 - 1900

Dimensions

Length

55 in