Girl's party dress in two parts (dress)

(a) Dress of pink and white striped taffeta, sleeveless fitted bodice, with wide flaring neck, and attached bertha collar pointed center front and center back, skirt with front and side fullness in pleats and greatest fullness in gathers at back, dress buttoned down center back with pink silk covered buttons, concealed pocket on either side of center front, bodice lined with white taffeta, skirt faced with stiffened muslin, bottom of skirt trimmed with diagonally cut gathered corded flounce of self material edged with pink taffeta, small mother-of-pearl buttons on waist band for attachment of overskirt to skirt, (b) overskirt in "polonaise" style, made of pink taffeta lined with white taffeta, both bertha collar and overskirt trimmed with gathered and corded pink taffeta edged with pink and white striped taffeta. - two pieces - dress with low round neck - sleeveless bodice - scalloped overskirt as a polonaise

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Samuel Mixter, Mrs. Samuel J. Mixter, and Mrs. Henry A. Morss, Jr.

Girl's party dress in two parts (dress)

  • American, about 1865–70
United States
Dimensions
99 cm (39 in.); Legacy dimension: CB: 40 in. CF: 39 in. Waist: 24 in.
Medium or Technique
Silk; Striped silk taffeta trimmed with taffeta
Classification
Costumes
Accession Number
50.2370a
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