dress, 2-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1870 - 1900
name: label: wearer
content: James, Catalina Juliana Mason Myers
label: maker
content: Worth
label: designer
content: Worth
label: maker
content: Worth
notes: label: Description
content: Cream silk faille; Renaissance Revival; evening; BODICE: low square neck; center front opening boned on both sides with 11 worked eyelets for lacing on either side; partial lacing attached; additional hook-and-eye at waist and neck; each side of front bodice cut in 2 pieces: a center front piece straight across and piped and a side front piece with long tab extension that extends over shoulder onto back; seam between pieces is boned almost to top; extension lined with white satin and weighted at bottom edge; lace panel trims front sewn into right armscyce tacked at right edge and hooks on left side with hook-and-eye; lace folds over at top to form small collar; each side of back cut in 3 pieces, each of which forms separate tab extension below waist; wide gathered lace collar sewn to inside neck from shoulders to back; elbow length sleeves are very full and pleated into armscyce; wide lace band attached to lower portion of sleeve; band of white chiffon pleated into narrow horizontal folds sewn into sleeve opening; lined with white silk satin; seam is partially boned inside separate waistband; SKIRT: trained; bound with banded piping at waist; flat in front, has large inverted pleat at center front; opening of pleat trimmed with lace; box-pleated at back with additional pleats at center back; large hook-and-eye closure; interior tapes for tying; lower portion lined with stiffened fabric and has double row knife-pleated dust ruffle trimmed with lace attached near inside hem; hem faced with self-fabric and extends below hem so appears as wide piping.
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
label: worn in
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Estate of Cassie Mason Myers Julian-James
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.033270
label: catalog number
content: 033270
label: accession number
content: 70138
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Dress, 2-Piece
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: waist: 28 in; x 71.12 cm