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Dress
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Entirely hand stitched child’s dress with white zigzag trim. White striped dimity with a high waistline formed by double drawstrings. Drawstrings also in front and back neckline. All are rather wide tapes. Short, wide puffed sleeves attached to bodice which has a narrow insertion of zigzag tape up the center and the down each side of the skirt front. The hem is bordered with 3 bands formed of 5 pintucks above the zig zags with the bottom zig zags being instead formed into little vandykes.
G2000.071
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Child, Female
Historic Costume
Dress
Unisex
Dimity
White
1825 - 1835