dress, 2-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1974
name: label: maker
content: Lelli
notes: label: Description
content: Dress; pink shantung (?) weave; dress has rolled collar w/ large points and small lapels below; CB placket opening which fastens with 6 pink pearl buttons; large, decorative top stitching, around collar and placket edges; 3 narrow open channels from shoulder to waistline in F, on each side, graduated in length; backed w/ ecru eyelet rim; set-in 3/4 length sleeves w/ large turned-up cuffs trimmed just below edge w/ horizontal channel opening w/ ecru eyelet beneath; channel opening just above hem with set-in band of ecru eyelet; patch pockets, R & LF hips, with turned-down flaps at top edge; decorative stitching around pocket and flap edges inverted pleat from below CB waistline; self-fabric tie belt has decorative top stitching around edges; dress measures 44" (111.8 cm) down CB.
label: Description
content: Label text: Lelli / New York
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Mrs. Jefferson Patterson (Mary Marvin Breckinridge Patterson)
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0398.010
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 2-Piece