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  4. Dress, green taffeta plaid silk with black silk pleated trim, 1853-1863, detail of sleeve and bodice pleat trim
Dress, green taffeta plaid silk with black silk pleated trim, 1853-1863, detail of sleeve and bodice pleat trim
Dress, green taffeta plaid silk with black silk pleated trim, 1853-1863, front view
Dress, green taffeta plaid silk with black silk pleated trim, 1853-1863, side view
Dress, green taffeta plaid silk with black silk pleated trim, 1853-1863, back view
Dress, green taffeta plaid silk with black silk pleated trim, 1853-1863, detail of sleeve and bodice pleat trim
Dress, green taffeta plaid silk with black silk pleated trim, 1853-1863, detail of hem pleat trim
Dress, green taffeta plaid silk with black silk pleated trim, 1853-1863, detail of skirt alterations at waist
Dress, green taffeta plaid silk with black silk pleated trim, 1853-1863, detail of printed sleeve lining
Dress, green taffeta plaid silk with black silk pleated trim, 1853-1863, thread count

Dress, green taffeta plaid silk with black silk pleated trim, 1853-1863, detail of sleeve and bodice pleat trim

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Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection

1853-1863. One-piece dress made of green, black, and white plaid silk taffeta trimmed with black silk box pleats, opening in front, with wide full-length sleeves and a floor-length skirt pleated evenl..

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1853-1863. One-piece dress made of green, black, and white plaid silk taffeta trimmed with black silk box pleats, opening in front, with wide full-length sleeves and a floor-length skirt pleated evenly to the bodice.
The bodice is made with three panels: two in front with two darts on each side and whalebone reinforcing the center-front opening, and one back panel with curved tucks. The lining is made the same way but without the tucks. The neck is high and the waist is round and at the natural level. The dress closes with concealed hooks and eyes.
The shoulders are dropped. The sleeves are cut on the diagonal and are fitted at the shoulder, flaring to the hem at the wrist. Perspiration guards are still sewn into the underarms.
The skirt is slightly longer in back than in front, and is made of nine panels 47 cm / 18.5 in. wide. The lengths are pleated evenly to the bodice all around with box and knife pleats. A small piece has been added in at the waist on the right back side. Needle holes at the waist suggest alterations. A tuck is taken in the skirt above the pleat trim.
Piping finishes the neck, scyes, and bodice waist. The dress is trimmed with pinked black silk box pleated strips, 3.18 cm / 1.5 in. wide, in a yoke configuration on the bodice with two additional rows beneath it across the front; the sleeves with same trim running vertically along the outside edge, and cuff; and a 10.8 cm / 4.25 in. wide hemmed box pleated band 10.16 cm / 4 in. above the hem.
The dress is lined with cotton in the bodice and skirt. The sleeve is lined with a printed cotton of red, tan, and blue in floral bands. Hand-sewn.

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The Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection digital catalog was produced by the UNH Library Digital Collection Initiative, supported in part by a grant from the Mooseplate program and New Hampshire..

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The Irma G. Bowen Historic Clothing Collection digital catalog was produced by the UNH Library Digital Collection Initiative, supported in part by a grant from the Mooseplate program and New Hampshire State Council on the Arts. Additional funding provided by the E. Ruth Buxton Stephenson Memorial Fund.

Photography copyright, Astrida Schaeffer.

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Astrida Schaeffer, photographer/curator

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Bust: 69.9 cm / 27.5 in.

Waist: 58.4 cm / 23 in.

Sleeve: 50.8 cm / 20 in.

Shoulder seam: 21 cm / 8.25 in.

Hem: 365.8 cm / 144 in.

Length of skirt (front): 91.4 cm / 36 i..

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Bust: 69.9 cm / 27.5 in.

Waist: 58.4 cm / 23 in.

Sleeve: 50.8 cm / 20 in.

Shoulder seam: 21 cm / 8.25 in.

Hem: 365.8 cm / 144 in.

Length of skirt (front): 91.4 cm / 36 in.

Length of skirt (back): 95.3 cm / 37.5 in.

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Silk, cotton

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