Exhibition
Posing for Paper
Dolls: Fashions from 1750 to 1900
Higbee Gallery, June 28, 2000- May 27, 2001
Anne Bissonnette,
Curator
Illustration by Norma Lu Meehan
Purple Plaid Afternoon Dress and Corselet
United States of America or England, ca.1850s-early 1860s
Silk taffeta woven in ribbon plaid with lace trimming on the hem of
the pagoda sleeves. Navy velvet corselet.
Silverman/Rodgers Collection, KSUM 1983.1.77abc
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