Pink Patterned Dress

VC2001074

Pink Patterned Dress

Pink Patterned Day Ensemble

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.

1903 (circa)

Clothing and dress

42 inches (chest), 20 inches (waist), 60 inches (center front length), 63.25 inches (center back length), other measurements: Skirt: Waist: 20; CF: 39; CB: 44; Ruffle length: 6 3/4

Bodice: CF: 21; CB: 19 1/4; Waist: 24; Sleeve inseam: 19; Collar length: 13; Collar width: 2 1/4

cotton

linen

metal

silk

synthetic fiber

Physical Object

1900s

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VC2001074

Candace Shuster, Sharon Scobel, Emily Leimkuhler, Molly Turpin; Hilde Wulf and Taylor Bowen 05/12/2014

pink

42

20

60

63.25

Skirt: Waist: 20; CF: 39; CB: 44; Ruffle length: 6 3/4

Bodice: CF: 21; CB: 19 1/4; Waist: 24; Sleeve inseam: 19; Collar length: 13; Collar width: 2 1/4

42 inches (chest), 20 inches (waist), 60 inches (center front length), 63.25 inches (center back length), other measurements: Skirt: Waist: 20; CF: 39; CB: 44; Ruffle length: 6 3/4

Bodice: CF: 21; CB: 19 1/4; Waist: 24; Sleeve inseam: 19; Collar length: 13; Collar width: 2 1/4

1898

1908

costume

clothing

Day Ensembles

day wear

good

Skirt: waistband is in poor condition, but rest of skirt in great condition; loose closure on skirt

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

See treatment report for work done to stabilize this garment as a part of the Historic Costume Preservation Workshop in 2010. On October 26, 2015, Arden Kirkland, Alexandra Figler, and Lily Shell prepared this dress to be mounted on a mannequin for display at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Lily Shell stabilized a section of tucks on the right front shoulder of the bodice, which had come undone, by stitching with hair silk and a beading needle in a simple running stitch.

Carol

K5

Vassar College Costume Collection, Drama Department, 124 Raymond Avenue, Poughkeepsie, NY 12604

This is a three-piece garment, skirt, bodice and collar. It has been identified as a ladies afternoon ensemble circa 1903. Women would have worn ensembles such as this in the afternoon to receive visitors, or go out visiting. This ensemble is made of a printed silk, with cotton Cluny lace trim. The outfit is hand-made, and most likely was owned and worn by a woman from a middle-class family. Privileged classes at this time would most likely have clothing made for them by a dressmaker, or would buy factory made wear. A less fortunate family would not have had such an expensive fabric with which to work, since the import of silk during this time was still expensive.
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

dress

collar

floral patterns