Afternoon dress
- Place of origin:
Paris, France (made)
- Date:
1909 (made)
1911-12 (alteration) - Artist/Maker:
Callot (designer)
- Materials and Techniques:
silk satin embroidered with silk and silver-gilt, embroidered muslin, velvet
- Credit Line:
Worn and given by Viscountess Gladstone
- Museum number:
T.156-1937
- Gallery location:
In Storage
Physical description
Cream satin dress embroidered with white silk and silver-gilt thread, low neckline filled in with an embroidered muslin chemisette & collar trimmed with a band of red velvet. Short lace sleeves. The skirt altered a couple of years after manufacture to a narrower hobble style, open at the left and gathered behind to reveal an underskirt of the same fabric
Place of Origin
Paris, France (made)
Date
1909 (made)
1911-12 (alteration)
Artist/maker
Callot (designer)
Materials and Techniques
silk satin embroidered with silk and silver-gilt, embroidered muslin, velvet
Object history note
Worn by Viscountess Gladstone during winter 1910-11 in South Africa, where she was the wife of the first Governor General of South Africa. She was photographed wearing this dress with the hat T.157-1937, the photograph shows that the skirt originally had a train and was fuller, but has since been altered to the fashionable hobble skirt silhouette and the train removed
Descriptive line
1910, French; Satin, embroidered gilt thread
Categories
Clothing; Fashion; Formal wear; Day wear
Collection code
T&F
