day dress
Report a Mistake- Date Made Circa 1890 - 1905
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- Affiliation --
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Object Number C-323
- Place of Origin --
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - New Brunswick, Municipality - Saint John
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, outerwear
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1885/01/01
- Latest 1905/12/31
- Materials Cotton
- Person / Institution Associated party, Reynolds
- Measurements Length 167.2 cm, Width 72.2 cm, Thickness 11.6 cm
- Caption Comments on this dress from the Reynolds family
- Additional Information White muslin dimity dress with narrow woven stripes of heavier yarn. Fabric is printed with groups of narrow dark blue stripes that alternate with a repeat pattern of tiny blue flower sprigs, leaf, and flower meanders. Machine-made lace is striped and patterned. Dress has Valenciennes type, machine-made insertion and narrow machine-made lace edging, and small pearl buttons. Bodice has a yoke of striped and patterned machine-made lace, and is edged with lace trimmed muslin frill. Bodice front is pouched and gathered to narrow waistband at centre front; back is pleated down either side of the centre back buttoned opening. It features a high, stand-up boned collar, and long sleeves that are pleated down the upper arms to below elbows and gathered into lace wristbands with hooked closing; yoke and wristbands are lined. There are five buttons at intervals around waistband; skirt cut with five gored pieces; gathering at either side of centre back opening; narrow waistband with buttonholes to match buttons on waist of bodice; two frills around bottom of skirt and band of lace insertion above top one; wide false hem. Belt is missing. This garment comes from the family of W.K. Reynolds, editor of the New Brunswick Magazine, and builder of the first suspension bridge in Saint John, New Brunswick.