child's dress

Child's dress in heavy white cotton, boat neck, short puffed sleeves in broderie anglaise with piped seam, feather stitching on band with looped braid in buttonhole stitch, stomacher has rows of horizontal tucks in groups of three, robings of broderie anglaise extend over shoulder to back sleeve, bodice slightly gathered into waist at back, skirt cartridge pleated into narrow waist band decorated with feather stitching, skirt has false petticoat front with panel of broderie anglaise, three tiers in panel joined with feather stitching, petticoat panel, hand sewn in the 1850s or 1860s