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Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - New Brunswick, Municipality - Marysville
Category Personal artifacts
Sub-category Clothing, outerwear
Department History
Museum CMH
Earliest 1870/01/01
Latest 1885/12/31
Materials Linen
Person / Institution Associated party, Gibson family
Measurements Length 60.0 cm, Width 185.0 cm, Thickness 53.5 cm

Caption Comments on this dress from the Gibson family
Additional Information A girl's one-piece day dress made of natural coloured (or greige) linen, with a neck-to-hem back opening. Long two-piece sleeves are set-in with cording and finished with shaped cuff are trimmed with a vandyked edging embroidered with dark brown flower and leaf motifs; neckline and lower area of dress are similarly trimmed. Round neckline is finished with vandyked edging of natural colour embroidered in dark brown in flower and leaf motifs, and has a frill of Bedfordshire-type lace. Neckline embroidered edging intended to lie flat. The front is cut with princess seams from the armholes to hem; back opening closed with 12 hand-worked buttonholes and mother-of-pearl buttons (two different styles). Back sections have princess seams from armholes to hem. The lower area of the skirt trimmed with two sets of an applied self bias band attached to vandyked edging and the lower edge is finished with a closely accordion-pleated self frill. Cut of dress forms full skirt which was held out with petticoats. Dress features material made from flax that was woven and grown in New Brunswick. It was made for the children of Alexander Gibson, one of Eastern Canada's leading industrialists who built the community of Marysville, where he owned and operated the largest cotton mill in Canada at that time.