Dress
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Young girl or toddler’s dress of light blue cotton. Unlined. Machine-sewn with some hand finishing inside. Asymmetric closure on left side of dress with large buttons of carved MOP. Hidden hooks and eyes at shoulder and around neckline. Dress does not have a yoke - the body of the dress is gathered to the high round neckline of the dress. Small stand collar. Long sleeves are full, set into the wrist band and shoulder seam with gathers. Machine-embroidered tape machine-sewn around wrists, stand collar, and down side front closure. Large square sailor collar. Also edged with same machine-embroidered tape. Belt is connected to CB, made from same blue fabric with machine-embroidered tale. Pointed ends. Small hole above wrist of left sleeve. Some light staining.
2024.15.008
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Historic Costume
Child, Female
Dress
Female
1895 - 1910