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Evening Dress

1873 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)
France (made)

Formal dress, salmon pink silk with short sleeves and neckline to bodice, trimmed with ruched wine red silk round neckline and on sleeves. Bustled and trained skirt trimmed with flounces and ruched bands of red


Object details

Categories
Fashion
Clothing
Formal Wear
Womenswear
Object type
Evening dress
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Jacket Bodice
  • Skirt
  • Knot (Motif)
Materials and techniques
Silk (Textile)
Dressmaking
Brief description
Silk evening dress, ca. 1875, English; Cream silk with burgundy trim
Physical description
Formal dress, salmon pink silk with short sleeves and neckline to bodice, trimmed with ruched wine red silk round neckline and on sleeves. Bustled and trained skirt trimmed with flounces and ruched bands of red
Dimensions
  • Bodice length: 46.9cm (front) (Note: measurement converted from department register)
  • Shoulders width: 35.6cm (Note: measurement converted from department register)
  • Skirt length: 116.8cm (Note: measurement converted from department register)
  • Hem circumference: 426.7cm (Note: measurement converted from department register)
Credit line
Given by the then Marchioness of Bristol, Geraldine Georgiana Mary Hervey (née Anson)
Object history
This dress, and 4 others (sequence T.49 to 53&A-1922) were donated by the then Marchioness of Bristol, Geraldine Georgiana Mary Hervey (née Anson) (1843-25/1/1927), as coming from her mother's wedding trousseau of 1873. However, there may be a misunderstanding where this provenance is concerned, as Geraldine Hervey's own wedding was 4 March 1862; her mothers' was 30 November 1830. The information is from a letter of the donor to the Museum. While the dresses certainly could have been part of a family trousseau, it would not have been that of the Marchioness nor her mother's.
Collection
Textiles and Fashion Collection
Accession number
T.50-1922

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O316351/evening-dress-unknown/
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