Fanny Seward's dress

[Eva Elisabeth]

There is something in me that says this dress is too "frivolous" and fancy to be part of a mourning ensemble... I suspect that Fanny liked lavender and needed a party dress sometime before the horrors of April 1865.

Thanks, Laurie, my intuition. This is too playful with the delicate gathers and the white lace cuffs.
Re: "That is a gorgeous dress that belies the image we tend to have of the shy and retiring Miss Fanny Seward" - from what Ms. Krisher writes, Fanny increasingly loved society events, dressing up etc., and became a self-confident host herself.