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Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

2-piece dress made of yellow and white striped light cotton with black velvet trim. Bodice (a) - sleeves with lace insert stripes and a large ruffle that ends below the elbow. Trimmed in black velvet with a black velvet bow. Eyelet lace interwoven with the black velvet and lace high neck tops the bodice. A large velvet trimmed ruffle runs all around the lace insert. Skirt (b) - unlined. Three-tiered velvet trimmed ruffles with the velvet trim eyelet around the top ruffle. Light train.

2019.02.2ab

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Adult, Female

Historic Costume

Dress

Female

Velvet

Yellow

Black

1900 - 1905

United States of America

North America

2

Bodice - 2019.02.2a Skirt - 2019.02.2b

Sarah Ellen Dunlap

New York

United States of America

North America

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