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Dress

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Child's dress with a orange background with black polka dots. Long sleeves. Bodice has round neck trimmed with black rikrak. Two lines of rikrak down the center front to the waist. Four round gold button in center between rikrak. One button missing. Same buttons and rikrak on the back; rikrak trim around the waist and shoulders and along the hems of the tiered skirt. Shoulders are smocked at the seams.

2017.007.1

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Youth

Historic Costume

Dress

Unisex

Orange

Black

circa 1850

American

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