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Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Toddler’s dress, entirely hand stitched. Tiny red milled ramage design. Fairly wide piped neckline, shallow yoke, piped. Slightly flared short sleeves edged with piping and finely hemmed self-frill; piped armscyes. Bodice gathered onto yoke and set-in waistband with a piped bottom edge. Medium long skirt gauffered onto waistband; no tucks evident. Back opening, 7 hooks and eyes. Skirt hem faced with recycled fabric, apple print that seems to date about 1800. Bodice lined with heavy white cotton.

G99.012

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Youth

Historic Costume

Dress

Unisex

Cotton

Red

1855 - 1865

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