Dress
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Hand and machine-stitched girl’s 2-piece dress made of silk taffeta. Blue with gray pinstripes. Long waisted polonaise (a) - deep false lapels of deep red velvet outlining a shirred panel which has concealed hooks and loops on proper left for closure. Tight shaped sleeves finished with deep red velvet turn-back cuffs. Ditto velvet standing collar. Pannier effect formed by pleating lower sides of polonaise on front edges; one has curved corner, the other square. Unlined. Small bright red velvet-trimmed tails in back over skirt bustle. Bustled skirt (b) - has bright red velvet band above hem finished with narrow kilted flounce.
G2003.083ab
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Child, Female
Historic Costume
Dress
Taffeta
Blue
Red
1883 - 1885
2
Top - G2003.083a Skirt - G2003.083b