Description:
Day dress worn by Helen Geier Flynt (1895-1986) in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Flynt, along with her husband Henry N. Flynt (1893-1970) founded Heritage Foundation, later Historic Deerfield, in 1952. The dress is made from white cotton and embroidered with red floral motifs/appliques. It is the sort of casual day dress worn by women at this time; it's one-piece construction sometimes earned it the name of a shirtwaist dress. The dress could have been custom-made for Flynt or bought as a ready-made item in New York, Greenwich, Connecticut (the couple's home) or at Frederick's, a woman's specialty clothing store in New Jersey with locations in Montclair and Spring Lake.
Subjects:
Embroidery; Cotton; Textile fabrics Link to share this object record:
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