Estella Accola and Friends, Prairie du Sac, WI, 1910s
A charming snapshot from my glass negative collection taken by and featuring featuring, Estella Accola and her girlfriends posing on a porch in Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, circa 1910s. The women are dressed in elegant early 20th-century attire, captured in a serene moment of camaraderie.
HOBBLE SKIRT EVENING DRESS, c. 1913
Hobble skirt dress w/ V-neckline leavers lace bodice extending to square drape over back, pink bias cut silk moire’ cummerbund waistband gathered to twisted bias band over closure at back left, shaped leavers lace H panels over draped hobble skirt, c. 1913, B 34”, W 24”, L 58”, (tears in lace at bodice up to 3.5”, underarm discoloration & silk lining shattering, missing stitch at rt underarm, broad light discoloration, elastic cord at neckline shot, lace at hem lining partially unstitched w/ tears up to 3”, net underbodice damaged/shredding) Deaccessioned by the Valentine Museum.
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