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Culture:American
Title:dress
Date Made:1845-1855
Type:Clothing
Materials:textile: taupe Jacquard-woven figured silk; taupe silk trimming; metal hook and eye closures
Place Made:United States
Accession Number:  HD 92.800
Credit Line:Found in Collections
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Woman's one-piece dress of pale gray-tan (taupe) silk with Jacquard woven floral pattern. Bell sleeves are gathered in three rows at shoulder. Fancy false buttons with silk tassels at center front. Center front opening uses hooks and eyes. Skirt is box pleated evenly all the way around. Piping at neck, armholes and waist. Waist has a slight rounded point at center front. Should and side seams are brought to the back of the bodice. Decorative seaming from center back waist to mid armhole emphasizes hourglass figure. Embroidered collar and cuffs attached (not part of the dress). This dress would have been worn with cotton undersleeves and collar that were basted on and easily removed for washing. The skirt was supported by a number of petticoats which would support the fashionable bell shape to skirts in the 1840s and 1850s. This dress likely predates the use of a cage crinoline or hoop skirt, popularly worn by the end of the 1850s.

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