Dress ca. 1840 American The extravagant silhouette of this day dress with bishop sleeves and pointed boned waist demonstrates the evolution from the nearly amorphous first cotton dresses of the century to the grandest crinoline-supported crystal palaces of the 1860s. It is a dress fit for a heroine in a novel by one of the Brontë sisters--shaped, expressive, tempestuous, and beguiling. And tightly, tightly corsetted on a summer's Dress. American. ca. 1840. cotton

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