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: T6057

: Social History

: dress

: garment

: costume

: Woman's day dress: skirt and jacket and over skirt. 'Tartan' silk with base colour of mauve/ mushroom, horizontal stripes in mid brown. Vertical Perkins purple strikes alternating with fine pink stripes. Possibly worn as a wedding dress in 1850.

: 1866 -1867