More than 2,000 pieces of clothing are included in the Young family collection - pieces shown on this page date from the 1880s. Annette Young inherited these pieces, which were worn by her mother and aunts, and donated them to the museum she founded to preserve Locust Grove, Locust Lawn, and her family's collections.
House dress c.1880. Sheer white with brown scattered fern pattern. Short standing collar with rouching trim.
LL-1437
Pinafore, late 1880s.Teal blue cotton with two straps; applied rouching and scalloped edge. Lined in gauzy cotton.
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Bodice, mid-late 1880. Dark olive silk with figured velvet around cuffs and down front.
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Bodice, c 1880s. Black heavy silk, standing collar, two rows of jet passementerie in flower design, on front and cuffs
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Bodice, c. 1880. Dark green silk with black silk crape standing collar.
LL-2299
Summer maternity blouse c. 1880s. Woven pale green cotton with off-white, and gray stripes.
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Bodice. 1880s Black and gray striped; lined with tan-colored cotton. Long straight sleeve cut on a curve and flared out to open cuff at bottom. Peplum front with extended peplum in back.
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