dress, 2-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1885 - 1889
label: Date made
content: 1889
name: label: wearer
content: Morton, Mrs. Levi P.
label: maker
content: Worth
notes: label: Description
content: Lavender silk faille and moire? woven cream silk with multi-colored floral and bow design; BODICE: extremely pointed center front edged with double row of lavender piping; front overlayed with lavender silk; pleated chiffon at neck edge; each side of center back cut in 2 pieces; center back opening with worked eyelets on either side for closure; silk ribbon attached; center back piece tapers into long tails that extend into skirt and terminate with tab; extensions are lined with lavender and cream silk; pleated band of back neck attached to right back with hooks-and-thread eyes to left back; short moire sleeves whose shape is created by pleating and pleated band of lavender silk over shoulders; entirely lined with silk all raw edges overcast or bound; each seam heavily boned with triple boning at center front; inner waistband closure; SKIRT: split front with body of skirt of moire with lavender accents at hips and at lower edge; hem padded and has lace and cotton dust ruffle inside; inner ties for bustle.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: related event
content: Battle of New Market
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Levi P. Morton
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.013398
label: catalog number
content: 013398
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 2-Piece
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: waist: 26 in; x 66.04 cm