dress
date: label: Date made
content: 1955
name: label: maker
content: Trudy Geismar
notes: label: Description
content: Dress; red orange velvetten; off-white turned-over collar, w/ round edges in F, in bias-cut, fine rib fabric with a slight sheer; puffed sleeves w/ binding around the bottom; fitted bodice with CB opening which fastens with 4 covered buttons; 3 dimensional flowers on F bodice, created of fine white fabric cones around teardrop beads of orange plastic inside clear plastic; cones attached to the base of 4 green embroidered lines extending downward in curves from C; 4 embroidered leaves attached in semicircle above embroidered stems; piping around F waistline seam, w/ self-ties attached at each side; full, gathered skirt w/ narrow, turned-up hem; measures 24" (61 cm) down CB.
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: 1991.0398.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress