Bissonnette on Costume: Time Search: The Nineteenth Century: 1840 to 1859

Bissonnette on Costume
Time Search: The Nineteenth Century: 1840 to 1859
Anne Bissonnette, Curator
Kent State University Museum

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Day dress, United States of America, late 1840s to mid-1850s.
Ombré blue, black and cream striped taffeta trimmed with silk cord, lace and jet buttons.
From the Patterson family of Baltimore.
Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1983.1.8

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Day dress, circa 1840-1849.
Brown and beige cotton day dress printed with paisley motifs.
Shown with a European paisley shawl from the second third of the Nineteenth century.
Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1983.1.73ab (dress)
KSUM 1983.1.1930 (shawl)

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Day or evening dress, circa 1840-1849.
Cream sprigged cotton lawn. High neck and short sleeves with the typical gathering at the center-front-wait.
Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1983.1.63

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Day dress, circa 1840.
Beige wool with red and green printed flower motif. Shown with a collar of Ayshire lace collar and a beaded handbag.
Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1983.1.71(dress)

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Day dress, United States of America, circa 1848-55.
Gold silk taffeta à disposition with blue floral borders. Worn with a European shawl from circa 1820.
Kent State University Museum
KSUM 1983.1.75 (dress), Silverman/Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1995.1.5 (shawl), gift of Mrs. Shirley Kelsey

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Wedding dress, Richfield, Ohio, United States of America, circa 1850-1859.
Gold and white silk damask wedding dress with black velvet fringe and ribbon decoration.
Kent state University Museum
Gift of Helen M. Gallese and Sally J. Vyrostek in memory of their mother, Emma Young Matejka of Richfield, Ohio.
KSUM 1985.5.1

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Wedding dress, United States of America, circa 1856.
Brownish-green watered silk with silk cord appliqué at upper bodice.
Kent State University Museum
Collection of the Allen Art Museum, Oberlin
Gift of Mrs. James B. Thomas, 1953
KSUM L1995.17.55ab

For more information on mid nineteenth-century fashion,
please visit the website of the exhibitions

Hair: The Rise of Individuality 1790-1840
The Right Chemistry: Colors in Fashion, 1704-1918
An Eye for Design: 18th & 19th Century Fashion and Decorative Arts
Fashion on the Ohio Frontier: 1790-1840
Flora and Fashion: Gardens Become Us!
Of Men & Their Elegance
The Hours of the Woman of Leisure
Centuries of Chilhood

Revised 05/29/07