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Culture:American
Title:dress
Date Made:1955
Type:Clothing
Materials:textile: slate blue silk plain weave (taffeta); white net (crinoline);
Place Made:United States; New York; New York City
Measurements:overall: 42 1/2 in.
Accession Number:  HD 1999.14.1
Credit Line:Gift of Cathleen C. Esleeck
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

Description:
Woman's one piece, sleeveless dress of slate blue silk taffeta, with attached crinoline lining the skirt, as well as at the neck decoration. Worn by Cathleen Clare Esleeck at a pre-wedding party at the Harvard Club, Boston. The dress was purchased by the donor from the shop of Ruth Fillebrown, who owned a dressmaking and alterations business in the Weldon Hotel on High Street in Greenfield, Massachusetts. This dress was purchased by Fillebrown for Esleeck in New York.

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