Sheer white, elaborately embroidered--bodice and puffed sleeves embroidered with flowers set inside diamonds; eyelet waistband with floral garland; skirt--floral garlands--horizontal rows increasing in size at hems, with net inserts; scalloped eyelet hem; floral sprigs embroidered around hem.
dresses (garments)
cotton (textile)
embroidering
Dress
Dress
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.5806
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