White cotton children's dress
date: label: Date
content: early 20th century
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: A white cotton children's dress with mid length sleeves and a rounded neckline. The ends of the neckline and sleeves are edged with narrow lace trim. A decorative yoke is sewn to the front of the dress and is embordered with three flowers and stitches in a curvilinear line. The embroidery is hand stitched white cotton thread. Cut and drawn embroidery creating overcast bars is stitched below the yoke. The front dress panel is gathered at the bottom of the yoke, concentrated at the center front. The sleeves are set in and gathered at the shoulder. They are slightly tapered inwards at the bottom and are gathered at the edge of the sleeve along the lace trim. The dress has a wide hem with an additional row of stitching along the bottom of the dress. The neckline at the back of the dress is slightly higher than at the front. The dress is gathered at the neckline along the lace trim. An opening is placed at the center back of the dress starting at the neckline. It closes with two buttonholes and a shell button; the top button is missing. This opening continues into a center back seam. The dress is entirely machine stitched except for the embroidery at the yoke. A tag is stitched to the dress’s interior at the proper left side of the neckline at the center back. The tag is printed with the number two.
label: Cataloging Notes
content: This project received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Children
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Black Fashion Museum Collection
label: Classification
content: Clothing - Fashion and Historical
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black Fashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2007.3.636
objectType: label: Type
content: costume
label: Type
content: dresses
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No known copyright restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: cotton and shell
label: Dimensions
content: L x W: 14 1/2 × 19 1/2 in. (36.8 × 49.5 cm)