Bissonnette on Costume: Time Search: The Nineteenth Century: 1883 to 1889

Bissonnette on Costume
Time Search; The Nineteenth Century: 1883 to 1889
Anne Bissonnette, Curator
Kent State University Museum

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Burgundy Reception Dress
United States of America, New York, ca.1885-87
Labeled "Mme Marie Schmidt, Robes, No.54 West 35, New York"
Burgundy and gold silk faille, red and gold voided velvet, gold lace and garnet beading.
Said to have belonged to Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago.
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
Dress: KSUM 1983.1.155ab
Fan: KSUM 1983.1.1570

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Evening dress, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America, circa 1883-1889.
Red silk faille with velvet and net trimmings
Kent State University Museum
Gift of Martha McCaskey Selhorst
KSUM 1996.058.0240ab

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Reception dress, circa 1888-1889.
Ginger colored Chinese export silk brocade with brown velvet trim.
Kent State University Museum
Silverman/Rodgers Collection
KSUM 1983.1.171ab

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Wedding dress, Gilmore area, Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States of America, 1889.
Two piece dress of gray-purple taffeta. Worn by the donor's mother, Hattie George, for her marriage to John Morris. The wedding took place in the Gilmore area in southern Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
Kent State University Museum
Gift of the Estate of Irene Morris Beauregard
KSUM 1993.3.2a

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

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

Revised 12/21/01