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c1850 voile day dress
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January 2005 A late 1840s dress from sheer Swiss cotton voile, the fronts are decorated with honeycomb smocking and shoulder seams with a narrow cotton lace of daisies. The bonnet is made with a foundation of heavy buckram and lined in silk taffeta, the outer covered with cotton twill and edged with ruchings of custom dyed pink silk taffeta. A net petticoat and full gathered cotton petticoat gives the skirt some fullness yet kept the ensemble light.
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