Dress and overblouse

Museum number:
2-63486a,b
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
3980 (original number)
Accession number:
Acc.3032
Description:
Child’s dress: White, sheer, plain weave cotton full-skirted dress with square neck and elbow-length straight sleeves. Dress (a). Overblouse (b). Materials: Cotton Techniques: plain weave Colors: White Dimensions (a): 33 1/2” long center back; 11” sleeve Dimensions (b): 20 1/2” long Remarks: Worn by Mrs. Houts at 10 years old in 1917. Back openings (a) and (b). Good condition. Dress-up dress, not for confirmation.
Donor:
Design Department (UC Berkeley)
Collection place:
United States
Verbatim coll. place:
U.S.A.
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Dresses (garments) and Overblouses
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:
length 34 inches and width 30 inches
Images:
Hearst Museum object 1 of 2 titled Dress and overblouse, accession number 2-63486a,b, described as Child’s dress: White, sheer, plain weave cotton full-skirted dress with square neck and elbow-length straight sleeves. Dress (a). Overblouse (b). Materials: Cotton Techniques: plain weave Colors: White Dimensions (a): 33 1/2” long center back; 11” sleeve Dimensions (b): 20 1/2” long Remarks: Worn by Mrs. Houts at 10 years old in 1917. Back openings (a) and (b). Good condition. Dress-up dress, not for confirmation.Hearst Museum object 2 of 2 titled Dress and overblouse, accession number 2-63486a,b, described as Child’s dress: White, sheer, plain weave cotton full-skirted dress with square neck and elbow-length straight sleeves. Dress (a). Overblouse (b). Materials: Cotton Techniques: plain weave Colors: White Dimensions (a): 33 1/2” long center back; 11” sleeve Dimensions (b): 20 1/2” long Remarks: Worn by Mrs. Houts at 10 years old in 1917. Back openings (a) and (b). Good condition. Dress-up dress, not for confirmation.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress and overblouse, accession number 2-63486a,b, described as Child’s dress: White, sheer, plain weave cotton full-skirted dress with square neck and elbow-length straight sleeves. Dress (a). Overblouse (b). Materials: Cotton Techniques: plain weave Colors: White Dimensions (a): 33 1/2” long center back; 11” sleeve Dimensions (b): 20 1/2” long Remarks: Worn by Mrs. Houts at 10 years old in 1917. Back openings (a) and (b). Good condition. Dress-up dress, not for confirmation.Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Dress and overblouse, accession number 2-63486a,b, described as Child’s dress: White, sheer, plain weave cotton full-skirted dress with square neck and elbow-length straight sleeves. Dress (a). Overblouse (b). Materials: Cotton Techniques: plain weave Colors: White Dimensions (a): 33 1/2” long center back; 11” sleeve Dimensions (b): 20 1/2” long Remarks: Worn by Mrs. Houts at 10 years old in 1917. Back openings (a) and (b). Good condition. Dress-up dress, not for confirmation.

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