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Two-piece twill wool day dress with standing collar, fitted Basque bodice with extended assymettrical side drape, and two-piece fitted sleeves. Faux marcasite floret buttons, watch pockets on either side with crows' foot embroidered details. Printed cotton lining of grape vine motif in skirt and waistband. Tie inside skirt lining at CB. Purple wool is heavily gathere din CB, with CB closure. Pocket to the right. Skirt wool twill hem is faced with cotton glazed fabric, while inside lining fabric with grape vien motif is hemed with black tarlatan. Bodice is lined with brown glzed cotton and weight on all four quadrants with round, fabric-covered weights.
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Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
1883 - 1886
User Age: Adult Gender: Female
Purple
Perkins'
Mauve
Mauvine
Aniline Dyes
Synthetic dyes
day dress
wool twill
1880s
Perkins, William Henry