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Historic Costume | Fine and Decorative Arts

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Dress

Object/Artifact

Machine stitched dress made of red plaid mohair or wool on silk warp. Close-fitting front with full length opening from proper right shoulder to left hem. “Epaulet” strip on proper left shoulder. Narrow coat sleeves with pointed turnback cuffs and split jockeys. Back of skirt is box pleated onto a section of waistband floating free of bodice underneath the three “tails” of the back. The sides of the front skirt each have a slit pocket on an angle. The sparkling gilt brassbuttons are used on the opening, epaulet, jockeys and cuffs. Loops of green and yellow braid form concentric ovals on the tails, and decorate the hem, pockets and opening.

G2003.078

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

1869 - 1873

machine stitched

child's dress

red plaid wool

silk warp

epaulet

coat sleeves

turnback cuffs

box pleated

brassbuttons

pockets

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