More Extant Dress Pictures

This one is fun. :-)

I *think* it was originally made some time before the 1820's, redesigned in the late 1820's/early 1830's, and then redesigned -again- very slightly in the late 19th, early 20th c. I say that for three reasons: a) you don't get burn marks/stains/ or other such blemishes beneath pleats or in other spots where no one will see (there is a smokey mark on the underside of the puff on one of the sleeves and another similar mark else where on the dress in a "no one will see it here!" type placement), b) you don't go hand sewing two stripes of gold trim down around the hem of your gown unless both better darn well show (I got some excellent pictures of this. One strip of trim is still visible but the other is tucked up and under the hem!), and c) you don't spend countless hours hand sewing a gown, the pleats, and everything else just to tack one tiny piece of lining back with a sewing machine in a color of thread that is not found anywhere else on the gown.

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