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Dress
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Partly machine-stitched dress made of red ‘cashmere’ wool. Smooth bodice with high straight neckline and short puffed sleeves with cuffs with attached lace frill. Skirt attached in wide box pleats. Back hook and eye opening. Vandyked bretelles. Golden yellow soutache braid applied in straight parallel rows around hem, on bretelles, on cuffs and across neckline. Bodice is lined with white cotton. White wool piped seams. Skirt is unlined.
G2006.165
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Youth
Historic Costume
Dress
Unisex
Cashmere
Cotton
Red
1860 - 1870
American