Boy's Dress
1868 (made)
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Boy's dress of black velvet trimmed with blue tartan silk and cut steel buttons. The dress has a square neck and short puffed sleeves. The knee length skirt is flat pleated onto the bodice, the pleats at the centre back of narrower gauge. The blue tartan silk is used to bind the neck, waist and the bottom of the small puffed sleeves showing under the vandyked epaulet. A double square pattern formed of the narrow bands is applied to the right front of the skirt. Rounded facetted steel buttons are stitched on the epaulets at the shoulder and to the applied pattern on the skirt, and down the centre back opening. A narrow organdie frill with a worked scalloped edge is stitched inside the neck and sleeves. The bodice is lined with black silk, the skirt lining is black calico. The dress has black metal hooks with worked eyes for fastening at the centre back. It is hand stitched.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Hand-stitched velvet and silk, calico, cut steel |
| Brief description | Boy's dress of black velvet trimmed with blue/ green plaid silk and cut steel buttons; made in England, ca.1868 |
| Physical description | Boy's dress of black velvet trimmed with blue tartan silk and cut steel buttons. The dress has a square neck and short puffed sleeves. The knee length skirt is flat pleated onto the bodice, the pleats at the centre back of narrower gauge. The blue tartan silk is used to bind the neck, waist and the bottom of the small puffed sleeves showing under the vandyked epaulet. A double square pattern formed of the narrow bands is applied to the right front of the skirt. Rounded facetted steel buttons are stitched on the epaulets at the shoulder and to the applied pattern on the skirt, and down the centre back opening. A narrow organdie frill with a worked scalloped edge is stitched inside the neck and sleeves. The bodice is lined with black silk, the skirt lining is black calico. The dress has black metal hooks with worked eyes for fastening at the centre back. It is hand stitched. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs Jean Orme |
| Object history | Given by Mrs Jean Orme (RF 68/ 3315). The dress is one of two (T.221 and 222-1968) worn by cousins of the donor's mother. The garments were worn by Edwin Hollis Perks (birth registered 4th quarter of 1862, according to the donor's mother 1864) and Bernard Perks (birth registered 2nd quarter of 1866). They were the sons of Samuel H Perks, proprietor of an edge tool manufacturing firm in Wolverhampton, and his wife Emma: the elder son seems to have been known as Hollis when he was a child and as Edwin when he was older. There are copy photograps of the boys showing Bernard wearing T.221-1968 and Hollis wearing T.222-1968). |
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| Accession number | T.221-1968 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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