Ladies ivory colored dress of Lawn or batiste with scooped neck trimmed with crocheted lace around the neckline, the sleeves and about the skirt at the knee line. The bodice has tiny tucks front and back, as has the skirt of the dress to the hip-line. There are horizontal tucks just above the lace insert at the lower part of the skirt and 3 inches above the hemline. The bodice has diamond shaped lace inserts 4 in front and 2 in back. There is a diamond shaped lace insert in each sleeve. There are 5 buttons in the back and 8 hook & eyes at the waist and to the hipline.
Collection
CLOTHING
Lexicon
Nomenclature 4.0
Nomenclature Primary Object Term
Dress, Wedding
Nomenclature Sub-Class
Wedding Objects
Nomenclature Class
Ceremonial Objects
Nomenclature Category
Category 08: Communication Objects
Maintenance
Maintenance History
Date
Dec 26, 2019
Provenance
Notes
Coat belonged to the great grandmother of the donor's husband, Irma Houck. Donors mother in law kept the coat for 50 years and then passed it on to the donor, who kept it for another 50 years before donating it to the museum.
