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Child's dress in two parts; yellow taffeta; long bodice hooked down back; short standing collar; long straight sleeves edged with Valenciennes lace ruffles; pocket on each side of peplum; skirt trimmed near bottom with folds and pleats of same yellow taffeta and lined with glazed white cotton; bodice lined with white cotton; bodice trimmed with bows and bands of blue silk ribbon.

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. John Carroll Perkins

Girl's dress in two parts (bodice)

  • American (Boston, Massachusetts), about 1880
Boston, USA
Dimensions
58.5 cm (23 1/16 in.); Legacy dimension: CF: 25 in.
Medium or Technique
Silk and cotton
Classification
Costumes
Accession Number
53.2900a
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