Dress
1910-1915 (made)
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Girl's smock dress of ivory washing silk, the yoke lined with white cotton twill. The dress has a rounded neck with a squared turn-down collar embroidered with feather stitching and stylized flower sprays in cream silks, and full wrist-length inset sleeves gathered and smocked at the wrist and ending in a narrow self frill. The skirt is gathered to the plain yoke at front and back, and worked with smocking in cream silks; the garment fastens at the back of the bodice with two pairs of buttons (each pair with a stitched loop), and a single button and stitched loop at the neck back.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk, smocked and embroidered, and cotton twill |
| Brief description | Girl's smock dress of ivory coloured washing silk; made in the United Kingdom, 1910-1915 |
| Physical description | Girl's smock dress of ivory washing silk, the yoke lined with white cotton twill. The dress has a rounded neck with a squared turn-down collar embroidered with feather stitching and stylized flower sprays in cream silks, and full wrist-length inset sleeves gathered and smocked at the wrist and ending in a narrow self frill. The skirt is gathered to the plain yoke at front and back, and worked with smocking in cream silks; the garment fastens at the back of the bodice with two pairs of buttons (each pair with a stitched loop), and a single button and stitched loop at the neck back. |
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| Credit line | Isabella Henrietta Granger Bequest |
| Object history | Isabella Henrietta Granger Bequest (RF 92/303). Isabella or Isabelle Granger was born in Essex in 1906, the daughter of Harold Granger and his wife (née Isabella Rebecca Dodd) and died in London in 1990. The bequest came via her solicitors who could give no information about her or the garments. It has since been possible to trace her parents' names and the date of her birth, and it is probable that the clothes were worn by her and/ or her sister Brynhild Katharine (born 1908) as a child. |
| Production | Date revised from new information about bequestor |
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| Accession number | MISC.718-1992 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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