Dress
c. 1900
20 1/2 in. x 13 1/2 in.
Unidentified,
Object Type:
Clothing and Accessories
Medium and Support:
silk
Credit Line:
Florence Griswold Museum; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William Banning
Accession Number:
1981.65
A boy's dress of black silk with gold embroidered floral sprays. There is a large pocket on the front, machine-made lace at the collar, a false hem, gathered yoke and cuff.
This dress was in the Kendall Banning family. A photograph in the object file shows a 3 year old boy (William banning) wearing the dress in the summer of 1920.