dress, bodice
date: label: Date made
content: 1884 - 1890
name: label: maker
content: Worth
label: probably worn by
content: Hewitt, Sarah Cooper
label: maker
content: Worth
notes: label: Description
content: Heavy cream silk faille; evening; deep square neck front and back, trimmed with pleated gauze on inside with gold ribbon insertion to control fullness at upper edge; center front opening right over left with 5 buttonhole worked in gold thread and 5 self-covered buttons; 2 boned darts either side of center front; large bust pads; straight waist edged with piping; neck and shoulders trimmed with band of sheer ribbon with satin stripe and satin loops through which is threaded silk net; satin bow applied at center front and left front on shoulder (it is likely that there was a corresponding bow on right shoulder, now lost); back cut in 3 parts with small back peplum in twisted overlapping pattern; vestigal sleeves covered with bands of the sheer satin stripe ribbon; opening trimmed with same and interior band of net with gold ribbon insertion, all back and side seams are boned; lined with striped white silk; interior waistband.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From the Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.311503.261
label: catalog number
content: 311503.261
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, Bodice
label: Other Terms
content: Dress, Bodice; Entire Body; Main Dress; Female
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: waist: 22 1/2 in; x 57.15 cm