dress, 1-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1790 - 1800
label: Date made
content: 1790-1800
notes: label: Description
content: Empire style; natural-colored cotton with printed sprig design; center front opening extending into skirt section; much piecing at upper front; scoop neck with casing and drawstring; falls loose in front from neck to skirt (which would have been controlled by some type of tie or drawstring which is no longer evident); bodice extending over shoulder into back; bodice side/back pieces joined to skirt; tucks, taken on side pieces to control fullness, which are released at raised waist level; center back seam; double inverted box pleat at skirt center back at raised waist level; additional pleats in skirt section where side/back and back pieces seamed; long, narrow set-in sleeves; wrist opening of sleeves trimmed with self ruffle; back bodice and sleeve lined with white linen; skirt longer in back than front; horizontal tuck in skirt near hem; narrow foldover hem.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used in
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Clothing & Accessories
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Brenton Copp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.006619
label: catalog number
content: 006619
label: accession number
content: 28810
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 1-Piece
label: Other Terms
content: Dress, 1-Piece; Entire Body; Main Dress; Female
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: linen (overall material)