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Collections

Woman's Dress (Bodice and Skirt)circa 1865

Not on view
Museum display of two mannequins in historical costumes: a dusty rose silk woman's gown with bronze looped trim and full train, and a violet silk men's suit with gold-embroidered cream waistcoat
Two mannequins displaying 18th-century European court dress. Foreground: a mauve silk gown with sweeping trained skirt, gold trim bands, and fitted bodice. Background: a deep purple silk suit with embroidered cream waistcoat and decorative buttons. Both mannequins wear white powdered wigs.
19th-century women's day dress displayed on a white mannequin in profile, featuring a fitted bodice and full skirt with long train in dusty rose silk, trimmed with rows of pleated ribbon along the skirt front and hem.
Detail photograph of a garment with vertical pleats or boning channels in bronze satin at left, and three horizontal pointed tabs in matching bronze satin applied to a purple silk ground at right.
Close-up detail of a mauve silk bodice with pleated front panel, cream lace trim, and a vertical row of pearl and metal buttons.
Title
Woman's Dress (Bodice and Skirt)
Place Made
England
Date Made
circa 1865
Medium
Silk plain weave (taffeta) and silk satin with cotton machine lace and metal and faux pearl buttons
Dimensions
Center back length (Bodice): 17 in. (43.18 cm) Center back length (Skirt): 66 7/8 in. (169.86 cm)
Credit Line
Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne A. Saperstein and Michael and Ellen Michelson, with additional funding from the Costume Council, the Edgerton Foundation, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, Maureen H. Shapiro, Grace Tsao, and Lenore and Richard Wayne
Accession Number
M.2007.211.942a-b
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles