dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1952
name: label: maker
content: L. Rouff
notes: label: Description
content: Main dress; entire body; pink organdy with white print of girls and ducks with umbrellas, surrounded with flowers; round collar with narrow ecru lace ruffle edge; puffed sleeves with narrow band around bottom, edged with narrow ecru lace; armholes and yoke edge, right and back, have piping inset along the seams; many tiny tucks below yoke, right and back, graduated in length with the longest beginning at the right and left of flat center area; center back placket fly opening, which fastens underneath with two pearl buttons and loops, with an additional button and loop at center back neckline; dress is very full below tucks, with flared sides; turned up hem; band of narrow ecru lace attached a little above hem, at top edge only, creating a slight ruffle; 18" (45 8/10 cm) long down center back
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: 1991.0398.004
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress