Clarence John Laughlin described this photograph as follows: “"The Florid Dress" takes us to the simple whitewashed cabin, on a Louisiana bayou, of Mrs. Ida Turner, descendant of slaves. She is wearing the floral pattern of which contrasts boldly with the sunlit wood. Below, hangs the chain to which the cow is usually tied, and the tub at which the pigs are fed—playing parts in the design of the picture, as they do in the life of Ida Turner herself.”