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Costumes & Textile Collection

'Revolutionary' Clothing

Colonial Era Men's Wear

A Woman's Best Dress

Foundations and Accesories
   

Costumes & Textile Collection:
Detail of Changeable Silk Dress

Detail of the changeable silk dress, showing the ruffled collar.

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Detail of the dress's inner bodice, cut from a hand-woven linen bed sheet, its center seam unpicked. The embroidered initials and number were used to keep track of the household linens.

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