dress, 2-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1898 - 1908
name: label: used by
content: Wilson, Caroline Schermerhorn Astor
label: maker
content: Rouff
notes: label: Description
content: Ivory taffeta; BODICE: high neck trimmed at top with pale green ribbon and black velvet and overlayed with lace; cf opening closed with 17 metal h&e; slightly V yoke of lace; rest of bodice has narrow vertical pleats; overlay of lace interspersed with large ribbon flowers in pinks and reds extends from shoulder to c waist; lace frill run cf on eith er side of opening; cummerband effect sewn on self belt; green bow center waist; back with same vertical pleates overlayed with strip of lace with ribbon bows near upper portion; 3/4 length sleeves with horiz tucking and large strip of lace along outside of arm cut to reveal chiffon beneath; lower sleeve elaborately trimmed with lace, ribbon bows and flowers; lined with silk; all seams boned and hand bound; strip of silk attached to inner left side of closure as modesty piece; inner waistband; SKIRT: fitted aroud wasit by means of vertical tucks; pleats at cb; closed at cb with 2 metal h&e; lace trim vertically at upper portion and horiz at lower is cut out to reveal to chiffon beneath; lined with silk; slightly trained with dust ruffle
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
label: made in
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Orme and R. Thornton Wilson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.047102
label: catalog number
content: 047102
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 2-Piece
label: Other Terms
content: Dress, 2-Piece; Entire Body; Main Dress; Female
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: waist: 32 in; x 81.28 cm