day dress
Report a Mistake- Date Made 1834-1836
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- Object Number C-325
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- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - New Brunswick, Municipality - Saint John, Township / District - Saint John, County of
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, outerwear
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1834/01/01
- Latest 1836/12/31
- Materials Cotton
- Measurements Length 133.0 cm, Width 59.5 cm, Thickness 8.9 cm
- Caption Comments on this dress from the Reynolds family
- Additional Information A dress made of white cotton tabby that was roller printed in a striped repeat design of zigzags and tiny rectangles, with tiny leaf sprigs in-between. Repeat is 11.5 cm and 6.5 cm wide; selvage to selvage width is 64.5 cm. Bodice is closely gathered into yoke and waistband; yoke is finished with cording. Dress has a centre front opening with one brass hook-and-eye at neck and two on waistband; wide turn-down collar edged with cording and box-pleated frill; full gigot sleeves are gathered into corded armholes; sleeves are narrow from forearm to wrist. The hooked opening and sleeve seams are corded; yoke, sides and sleeves lined with white cotton tabby. The skirt is composed of five widths, gathered to waistband, and is open part way down then pleated to suggest an opening; six small pearl buttons are stitched onto the pleat at wide intervals; the hem is faced with a band of cotton tabby. At the back right skirt length is a stamp in a rectangle. The dress is a very good example of its style. This pelisse gown 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.