White cotton children's dress

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A white cotton children's dress with mid length sleeves and a rounded neckline. The ends of the neckline and sleeves are edged with narrow lace trim. A decorative yoke is sewn to the front of the dress and is embordered with three flowers and stitches in a curvilinear line. The embroidery is hand stitched white cotton thread. Cut and drawn embroidery creating overcast bars is stitched below the yoke. The front dress panel is gathered at the bottom of the yoke, concentrated at the center front. The sleeves are set in and gathered at the shoulder. They are slightly tapered inwards at the bottom and are gathered at the edge of the sleeve along the lace trim. The dress has a wide hem with an additional row of stitching along the bottom of the dress. The neckline at the back of the dress is slightly higher than at the front.

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