T-Dress, Sun Dance & Ribbon Dresses

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1. For Sale - In Stock
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      Sheer over-dress w/metallic butterfly designs,
slip dress is solid cotton-polyester.
Bust 48", Sleeve 28", Length 50"
Fits bust up to 44"

Size L-XL $85 SOLD

100% Polyester, Hand Wash & Hang Dry.

Belts Sold Separately - See Concho Belt Page



    Ladies Brocade T-Dresses
Suitable for Wedding Dress

White brocade dress with metallic floral brocade Dress-Size L-XL
Fits Bust & Hips to 48"
Dress $85

White Heart hair ties & barrettes $85 set SOLD

Earrings $20 SOLD

Belts Sold Separately - See Concho Belt Page



 Girls T-Dresses

Washable polyester - Hand Wash, Hang Dry.

Ready to decorate with your design choice
Bust 33", Length (Red=31") (Hot Pink=30") $35 ea

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2. Style & Pricing Information
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Items Shown Below Are Not For Sale

  
Sundance Dresses w/apron
Wool-blend Banded Tradecloth (L)
Cotton (R) Both have inset side panels

  
Wool-blend Tradecloth Dress
Photo by Paul Gowder www.powwows.com

A Brief History

A-Line dresses have been worn by women around the world for thousands of years. Women of many North American tribes have worn their own versions of A-line skin dresses at some point. These dresses are still worn by many tribes today, made from skin or cloth in a variety of styles, depending on tribal affiliation.

Some dresses are made with a "gusset" panel inset into the side seams of the dress. This style dates back to the time when woven wool stroud cloth first became available to Indian women for clothing. The early looms could only weave fabric about 24" wide. Some woman needed dresses larger than 48" around, so they set in an extra panel at the side. It became fashion in some tribes to set the panel a few inches longer than the dress hem, to mimic the "legs" on old deerskin dress styles. This style is still worn by many plains tribes today.

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100% Wool Banded Tradecloth
with inset side panel

  
Beadwork set matching dress above

  
  

Ladies A-Line or "T" Dresses
Shawls, Purses & Leggings


We make cloth dresses in a variety of styles and fabrics. We also make matching shawls, purses, back trailers, & cloth.

We can co-ordinate designs with beadwork, as shown on the orange dress at left, made using 100% wool tradecloth.

This orange dress was $325, matching purse w/bone & bead fringe was $75, the tradcloth half-shawl was $125 when fringed (not yet fringed in photo).

Dresses decorated with applique generally run $125 - $200, depending on fabric & amount of labor. Expensive fabrics such as tradecloth or bridal fabrics, & elaborately decorated dresses may run more. Shawls Full size shawls from 60"-70" wide are fringed heavily on all four sides. They normally range in price from $125 - $250, depending on decoration. See more information about shawls on the Shawl Page of this website.

Half-size shawls in gabardine & satin are fringed on the bottom only, & normally run $60-$75 depending on the amount of decoration.

Purses (see below) are often carried by Cloth Dancers. Ours are made in matching fabrics & designs. Depending on decoration, purses normally run $60-$75.

Cloth Leggings sometimes worn by dancers can be ordered to match the dress. Leggings are normally decorated with designs from the dress. Cloth leggings generally run $60-$75, depending on the fabric & decoration.

      

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Traditional Diamond & Cross Design
You may have seen copies, but THIS is the original!

Ribbon Dress is a term often used in eastern states for A-line style cloth dresses. In response to request for a ribbon dress style, we created our ORIGINAL DESIGN in 2004, inspired by designs used on our Cherokee style tear dresses. The basketwork diamond & cross design runs along the sleeve & hem. The matching shawl has the diamond & cross design running across the shawl.

Dress $125, Matching shawl $125.

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(Left) 6X T-Dress w/sleeve fringe $140 SOLD
(Right) T-Dress, 1/2 shawl & purse $175 SOLD

  
Michaela (Comanche) & a little Omaha Jingle Dancer
Girls T-Dresses

This red girls dress (6X) was created as an example of endangered childrens clothing for rallys & hearings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., to gain attention from Congress about the necessity of amending the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008. It has appeared on television, & hung front & center at House Hearings & various meetings. It serves as a visible reminder to Congress that we will not give up the fight to amend this law as it threatens Native American culture by restricting regalia that can be purchased for our children.

These dresses can be decorated in any style for girls, and are ideal for adding cones onto for a jingle dress (right photo).

Belts & Jingle Cones Sold Separately - See Concho Belt Page

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3. Photo Archive Section
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Items Shown Below Are Not For Sale


Ladies Northern & Southern Cloth Dresses

  
Hannah & Raven Springwater

Lakota style

Butterflies

Elaborate

Thunderbird

Sister outfits

  
Wedding Basket

1/2 shawl

Girls dress

Florals

Princess in OK

Garment suede fringe

  
Pieced Star

Star accessories

Broadcloth

Dress made for
a Tsimsian lady

Beautiful colors

1/2 shawl-purse-dress

  
Dress with
sleeve fringe

Four Directions

Pre-teen Girls

Garment suede
fringe added

This one was
LOTS of work!

Satin dress & ribbon
fringe on 1/2-shawl

  
Dress & 1/2 Shawl
for Lakota dancer

Star Quilt design
LOTS of work!

Red Cotton for
Yankton girl

Southwestern or
Taino Style

Dress for Oglala
Lakota dancer

Lakota dress
& full shawl

  
Waterbirds & Florals
W/Burgundy Belt

Colorful Dress
& Full Shawl

Eastern
Ribbon Dress

Rising Phoenix
& 7-Point Stars

Rising Phoenix & Stars Shawl
Matches Dress at Left

  
Jennifer Moses
at Red Earth

Tradecloth dress
shown at left

Sheryl Botone-Kiowa

Velvet Dress
Cowry Shells

Comanche John
& Lori Keel

Waterbirds

            Photo above by
            Paul Gowder @
            powwows.com

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