Dress
Description
Ivory silk chiffon dress with a tape-lace skirt. The dress's bodice and panels are heavily beaded with silver-core glass and metal beads.
Creator
Date
1915
Ivory silk chiffon dress with a tape-lace skirt. The dress's bodice and panels are heavily beaded with silver-core glass and metal beads.
1915
Lace, silk, metal, glass
13.75 inches (shoulder), 21.75 inches (skirt length - front), 26 inches (skirt length - back), 34.5 inches (bust), 34.5 inches (waist), 22 inches (neck to waist)
1948.89.2
118
Worn by Amelia Himes Walker (1882-1974) at her last public concert in 1915. Though a singer by profession, Amelia Walker more often made headlines in the Baltimore Sun for her efforts in the women's suffrage movement.
Gift of Mrs. Robert Hunt Walker (née Amelia Himes)
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