Dress
- Image
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- Created Date
- 1877
- Description
Two-piece dress of off white satin brocade trimmed with dark yellow taffeta and off white silk thread fringe trim. Bodice (a) with self-fabric covered buttons and elbow-length sleeves. Square neckline and button on back. Skirt (b) with elaborately draped waterfall bustle, long train, and hook and eye closure. Floor length.
- Creator
Field, Leiter & Co. (distributor)
- Contributing Institution
- Chicago History Museum
- Subjects
- Costume (mode of fashion)
Clothing
Main garments
Dresses (garments)
Wedding dresses
Pearson, Helen Grace
Gladwin, Charles Pratt
Weddings (ceremonies) - Location
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Type
- physical object
- Format
- Silk (fiber)SatinTaffetaFringeLace (needlework)
- Language
- English
- Rights
- © Chicago Historical Society, published on or before 2017, all rights reserved.
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- Chicago citation style
- Field, Leiter & Co. (distributor). Dress. 1877. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/41. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Field, Leiter & Co. (distributor), (1877) Dress. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/41
- MLA citation style
- Field, Leiter & Co. (distributor). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/ref/collection/chm_museum/id/41>.