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Dress
Clothing/Dress/Costume
2-piece dress made of yellow and white striped light cotton with black velvet trim. Bodice (a) - sleeves with lace insert stripes and a large ruffle that ends below the elbow. Trimmed in black velvet with a black velvet bow. Eyelet lace interwoven with the black velvet and lace high neck tops the bodice. A large velvet trimmed ruffle runs all around the lace insert. Skirt (b) - unlined. Three-tiered velvet trimmed ruffles with the velvet trim eyelet around the top ruffle. Light train.
2019.02.2ab
Genesee Country Village and Museum
Adult, Female
Historic Costume
Dress
Female
Velvet
Yellow
Black
1900 - 1905
United States of America
North America
2
Bodice - 2019.02.2a Skirt - 2019.02.2b
Sarah Ellen Dunlap
New York
United States of America
North America