Dress

Museum number:
2-63380a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3973 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Dress: natural color embroidery net and filet lace pieced together to make straight, square necked, short dropped shoulder, sleeveless dress. Wide insertion and edging of coarse filet on front shoulders, sides waist, and hem. Boxes off areas of embroidery net. Fine net emb. with heav flower and leaves surrounded by all over pattern of meandering lines. 2 rows of crochet buttons down front. Good condition
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A.
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Materials:
Silk
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dresses (garments), Embroidery (visual works), and Lace (needlework)
Function:
2.4 Fine Clothes and Accoutrements not used exclusively for status or religious purposes
Accession date:
1974
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Dimensions:
width 28 inches and length 41 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Dress, accession number 2-63380a,b, described as Dress: natural color embroidery net and filet lace pieced together to make straight, square necked, short dropped shoulder, sleeveless dress. Wide insertion and edging of coarse filet on front shoulders, sides waist, and hem. Boxes off areas of embroidery net. Fine net emb. with heav flower and leaves surrounded by all over pattern of meandering lines. 2 rows of crochet buttons down front. Good conditionHearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Dress, accession number 2-63380a,b, described as Dress: natural color embroidery net and filet lace pieced together to make straight, square necked, short dropped shoulder, sleeveless dress. Wide insertion and edging of coarse filet on front shoulders, sides waist, and hem. Boxes off areas of embroidery net. Fine net emb. with heav flower and leaves surrounded by all over pattern of meandering lines. 2 rows of crochet buttons down front. Good condition
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-63380a,b, described as Dress: natural color embroidery net and filet lace pieced together to make straight, square necked, short dropped shoulder, sleeveless dress. Wide insertion and edging of coarse filet on front shoulders, sides waist, and hem. Boxes off areas of embroidery net. Fine net emb. with heav flower and leaves surrounded by all over pattern of meandering lines. 2 rows of crochet buttons down front. Good conditionDocumentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress, accession number 2-63380a,b, described as Dress: natural color embroidery net and filet lace pieced together to make straight, square necked, short dropped shoulder, sleeveless dress. Wide insertion and edging of coarse filet on front shoulders, sides waist, and hem. Boxes off areas of embroidery net. Fine net emb. with heav flower and leaves surrounded by all over pattern of meandering lines. 2 rows of crochet buttons down front. Good condition

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