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Brown Bustle Dress

Brown Bustle Dress

SubjectDress
DescriptionDark Brown linen dress consisting of a jacket and skirt. Jacket has shoulder princess seams and ten buttons down the front with hand sewn button holes. Armseye has rust brown piping. Two piece sleeve with rust brown ruffle at the wrist. Satin ribbon bows on back of wrists. Mandarin style collar. Skirt was worn with a bustle. eight tucks are in the side back seam. Back panel has two layers that are both trimmed with a rust colored ruffle. The ruffles have an inch wide band. There are four ruffles along the bottom, the top and third down are two inches wide. The second ruffle and the bottom ruffle are four inches wide. In the front there is ruching at center front, two inches wide. The top ruffle come up in the front to meet the ruching
Date Created1880-1900
IdentifierOPM2022.88
RightsBrigham Young University-Idaho
Is Part OfOneida County Pioneer Museum Textile Collection
Rights HolderOneida Pioneer museum