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Dress
American
about 1840
Object Place: Massachusettts, United States
Medium/Technique
Figured silk tafetta, baleen, cotton plain weave lining, metal hook and eye closures, cotton cord
Dimensions
Center front (bodice): 31 cm (12 3/16 in.)
Center front (skirt): 104.9 cm (41 5/16 in.)
Center front (skirt): 104.9 cm (41 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift in memory of Mrs. Horatio Appleton Lamb
Accession Number52.1154a-b
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CollectionsAmericas, Fashion and Textiles
ClassificationsCostumes
DescriptionWhite silk dress of taffeta with minute imbricated scalloped pattern of weft floats; (a) bodice: wide flaring neckline with cotton cord through casing, short straight sleeves with silk ribbon edging inside, boned and pointed center front and back, laced down center back, and tape tabs sewn inside side seams that hang down with small hook sewn to each end; (b) skirt: full with greatest fullness at back, all fullness pleated into white taffeta waistband, bottom of skirt lined with buckram (about 13 3/4" wide)
ProvenanceInherited by Misses Aimee and Rosamund Lamb; Gift to the MFA, 1952