afternoon dress

Unknown artist

Middle 1880's

Canadian Museum of History

A full-length view of a historical women's dress with a fitted bodice and a voluminous, layered skirt. The dress features plaid patterns and fringe detailing. A full-length view of a historical women's dress with a fitted bodice and a voluminous, layered skirt. The dress features plaid patterns and fringe detailing. An afternoon dress made of grey brown taffeta, composed of a (a) bodice, (b) skirt, (c) panel, and (d) bodice, with a wide tartan pattern stripes "à disposition". Twenty-two silvered metal-domed buttons with a basket weave pattern. Fitted bodice (a) is of grey-brown taffeta with panel with a tartan pattern in stitched-down pleats on each side of the centre front twenty-two button opening. There is boning to left of opening, in the two front darts of each front, and in the side