Ivory ribbed children's dress with eyelet embroidery

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

An ivory ribbed children’s dress. The dress features a square neckline with a scalloped edge and embroidered eyelets. There are seven eyelet holes down the center front with an ivory cotton ribbon laced through it. Four machine embroidered flowers – two on the proper right and two on the proper left – surround the laced front. There is an additional embroidered flower at each shoulder, surrounded by eight eyelet holes and scalloped embroidery. Each sleeve has a scalloped edge at the cuff. The bodice and sleeves are all one piece of ivory ribbed cotton that has been machine stitched to the back bodice at the sides. A 2” waistband made from the same ribbed material is machine stitched to the bodice and the front panel of the A-line skirt.

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