dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1943-1945
notes: label: Description
content: Dress; white organdy; F & B bodice has 4 tunnels through which dark pink grosgrain ribbon is threaded; fabric is shirred between tunnels and extends into small ruffle, which runs from armhole to armhole, forming bottom of square neckline; puffed sleeves w/ tunnel forming band around sleeve bottom, and ruffle below; dark pink grosgrain bows trim C of top and bottom tunnels in F, outside C of sleeve tunnels; larger, wider, dark pink grosgrain ribbon at CB waistline; CB opening, in bodice to below waistline, fastens with 7 tiny eparl buttons; skirt, of heavier weave organdy, has tiny tucks around waistline, pressed down to hip level; inset band joins, at bottom, doubled hem of skirt fabric; inset band trimmed w/ bows of wider ribbon at R & LF; measures 24 1/2" (62.2 cm).
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of J. B. Carpenter in memory of Mrs. Walter Willard Boyd
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0698.002
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress