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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

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Dress

Object/Artifact

Girl’s dress, mostly machine stitched. Made of plaid merino wool or wool-cotton mix, having red, green, black, blue and yellow on white ground. Wide flaring body on the bias, no waist, with diagonal opening in front, edged with black velvet ribbon and closed with flat black glass buttons. Coat sleeves with wide band of black velvet ribbon around bottom, and above the hem. Tiny standing collar. Lined with tan lining cambric. No pocket.

G2006.153

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1865 - 1870

User Age: Child Gender: Female

American

Dress

Child

Female

Girl

machine stitched

merino

cambric

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