UNIM1986.14.1985.5. 002 (Dress)

Woman's 3-piece antique day dress. Woven wool jacket and skirt, rayon dickey. Heavy black wool skirt and bodice with satin-stitch pattern of dots and lines. Fully lined. Skirt floor length, 6 gores with 3 hook & eye closures at waist band. Center back closure placket 7 1/2'' long; longer in bodice. Bodice same fabric and trimmed around neck, down front and at wrist of sleeve with black braid. Three inch gap in front where black and pink dickey is inserted. Bodice lined with beige twill. Lining extends to center front with hook and eye closing. Long gathered sleeves with bias ruffle and braid at wrists. Dickey hooks inside bodice with hook and eyes at neckline. Covers lining and front opening of bodice. Made of black satin with small dots and lines of pink and green. Pleated horizontally across top from neckline down 4'' center front, then gathered the rest of the way across. Horizontal pleats folded back and forth (up & down) to form heavy texture. Lined. 14'' long at center front. Color: BK,PK,GR

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