Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Vermont Historical Society

Name/Title

Dress

Entry/Object ID

1979.8.5a-b

Description

Two-piece linen dress consisting of a jacket and skirt. Both the bodice and the skirt and trimmed with semi-circular tabs attached at the hems, cuffs, collar, center placket, and side-front skirt seams. Each tab is bound in white cotton. The bodice is long-sleeved and secures down the center front with mother-of-pearl buttons. The skirt is additionally trimmed in the back with gathered strips of self fabric.

Context

Worn by a member of the Safford or Jackson family of Jericho, Vermont

Acquisition

Accession

1979.8

Source or Donor

Saccocia, Isabel Jackson Nuquist (1924-2009)

Clothing/Dress/Costume Details

Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume

Dress

Clothing Sex

Female

Textile Details

Material

Linen

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Habit, Riding

Nomenclature Secondary Object Term

Dress, Day

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Suit

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Dress

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Main Garments

Nomenclature Class

Clothing

Nomenclature Category

Category 03: Personal Objects