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Dress, Child's
1875 Approximate
White Cotton Child's Gown. Material: textile, shell. Size: 22" W. x 20" L. Description: white fine cotton nainsook; high round neckline trimmed with a double row of fine white lace, long set in sleeves gathered to a cuffed band encircled with pin tucks and edged in white lace, front bodice trimmed with alternate vertical rows of tiny pin tucks and white embroidery; skirt flares at waistline and is encircled near lower edge with narrow bands of pin tucks and edged with a double row of 1 1/2" ruffles; bodice back trimmed with alternate rows of vertical pin tucks and feather stitch embroidery; back closure with 5 white buttons and buttonholes in a long placket, skirt is gathered to waistline.
Hand made in about 1875.