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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Debora, post: 4533588, member: 1476&quot;]I&#039;m finding the clothing hard to decipher.&nbsp; If I had to make an educated guess, I&#039;d say -- what with the gathered bodice, high waist and round shoulder -- sometime in the 1850s.&nbsp; (If 1860s, she&#039;d be wearing a hoop but she doesn&#039;t appear to be nor does the skirt appear to have much volume.)&nbsp; But then, she&#039;s not affluent so perhaps she wasn&#039;t able to follow the latest fashions.&nbsp; I wonder if not an older dress made over to be serviceable at a later date.&nbsp; The best indicator of dating is probably her bonnet which she may have hand- decorated to the latest fashion.&nbsp; She wears it defiantly; must have been important to her.</p><p><br /></p><p>Debora[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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