Description:
Girl's two-piece blue and light brown silk dress consisting of a bodice and skirt, which acording to family tradition was worn by Lizzie Henrietta Orange Brown (1861-1947). The dress's construction dates it to the mid-late 1870s, which may suggest another, slightly younger wearer in the family than Lizzie. Following the simultaneous publication of "Harper's Bazar" (the third "a" in Bazaar does not get added until ca 1930) in Europe and North America in 1868, fashion became truly international. This girl's dress, which is a youthful and shorter version of what would have been worn by fashionable woman of the period, was made of a hightly desirable, rather stiff material woven from worsted wool and silk. The blue silk taffeta collar, cuffs and trimming may have been taken from an earlier garment as the fabric appears to have been dyed with aniline dyes, introduced in 1856 and highly popular during the Civil War period (1861-1865). Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Lizzie Henrietta Orange married George Horace Brown (1853-1903) in 1889. The dress came with three daguerreotypes, one of Lizzie taken by "O. B. Evans' Old Gallery / Removed from Buffalo, N.Y., to / No. 5 Franklin St., Titusville, Pa."; and two of a man and woman done by "Littlefield, Parsons & Co."
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Silk; Wool Link to share this object record:
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