Pink Patterned Dress
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Title: Pink Patterned Dress
Date: 1903 (circa)
Description: pink patterned top, skirt, and collar; Pink and cream printed treated silk, pink silk front facing, cotton muslin ruffle at hem, cotton lace floral applique, grosgrain synthetic ribbon as waist tape, metal hook-and-eye closures; linen lining of collar. Fitted silhouette, no boning, seems to pre-date aesthetic dress, but has pleating at front which adds volume, bishop sleeves gathered in at tier, sleeve has 5.5'in cuff, detached high standing collar with boning wire, pintucks down center back (6), floral lace applique down center front and around cuffs and collar, pink front facing down center front; center front hook-and-eye closures; pink pleats at collar with applique. Pintucks where tiers of sleeve meetpink patterned top, skirt, and collar, full skirt in pink printed fabric with longer back with train at back, two tiers of ruffles with ruching at tops of ruffles.
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Bodice: CF: 21; CB: 19 1/4; Waist: 24; Sleeve inseam: 19; Collar length: 13; Collar width: 2 1/4
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Bodice: CF: 21; CB: 19 1/4; Waist: 24; Sleeve inseam: 19; Collar length: 13; Collar width: 2 1/4
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Bodice: CF: 21; CB: 19 1/4; Waist: 24; Sleeve inseam: 19; Collar length: 13; Collar width: 2 1/4
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Day Jacket: Great condition; minor seam issues; tearing near collarYellowing and abrasion of linen around collar interior, yellowing lace applique, yellowing muslin, some shattering under sleeve, near neck, underarms, tear/shattering in back; possibly made as a costume; severe shattering at waist of skirt, some stains and creases.
Needs mannequin
Needs foundation garments
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Exhibition Notes
This piece had a few large areas of loss that needed to be stabilized. We began by using a seam ripper to remove seams along the skirt placket to obtain pieces of the original fabric for patching. The fabric from the placket looked almost new where it wasn't damaged by light or other sources-the actual colors were very bright. Using a piece of plain pink fabric for the stabilization patch, and then a piece from the original placket fabric we carefully sewed the original fabric onto the patch fabric, and then the patch onto the back of the neck on the inside of the bodice. We then moved onto the other loss areas, and continued along in the same pattern with the bodice, and then the skirt.
Researched by Candace Schuster
Stabilized by Candace Schuster and Margaret Thompson ‘10
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