Object Number 2002.0017.038

Object Name

Dress

Category

Textiles (Clothing)

Credit Line/Donor

Gift of Henry and Mia Albertson's Family

Place of Origin

Bucks, Pennsylvania, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Origin Notes

Owned by family in Buck's County, PA or New Castle Co., DE,

Secondary Place of Origin

New Castle, Delaware, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America

Date

1870-1890

Materials

Silk; Velvet

Dimensions (inches)

55.118 (H) , 11.811 (W)

Dimensions (centimeters)

140 (H) , 30 (W)

Measurement Notes

Width taken at shoulder. The separate piece of the boned waistband is 27" long. 10 3/4" at widest point.

Object Description

Web - 05/25/2016

A dress made of ribbed, pale blue silk that is trimmed at the collar and cuffs with darker blue velvet. The skirt hem is also adorned with velvet piping and three rows of tucks at skirt hem. There is an opening for a pocket on the proper right side. The bodice opens in the front with hook and eye fasteners. The bodice and skirt are pinned and basted to become one continuous garment. There is a separate boned corset of the same silk, also decorated with velvet piping. The corset fastens on the left side. Lined with brown printed cotton.

Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes

[Thesis] Eisenbarth, Erin. 2002 Plain and peculiar: a case study of nineteenth-century Quaker clothing. 134 M.A. University of Delaware Winterthur Program in Early American Culture
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