This is a traditional hand sewn three hide dress I made this week for one of the Comanche women in our film. It is very plain as would be a dress worn everyday. This style came in after the two hide dress with the turned down tails that formed the yoke common from the early 1800's to around 1840-50. This dress above would have been worn from about 1860 up until the fully beaded yoke and back style dresses came into use, around 1890. More like what you see at modern pow wows today.
The bone hair pipe breast plate is a style worn by the women of several plains tribes including the Comanche as is the Dentalium shell choker. Dentalium shells were traded by some west coast tribes to those of the plains. The loomed belt is loomed with large beads, about 6 or 8 size, but not as big as pony beads....
This one may be for sale after the film....it will fit a female (or a Bierdache), up to 5' 8", and a waste up to 40". If fitted properly, it should fit loose, and not tight.
Bill
Comanche, Three Hide Dress