Court Presentation Dress
1931 (made)
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Sleeveless V-necked shift dress in white satin overlaid with cream net embroidered with rosettes, silver sequins and pearls. Triple-layered tulle skirt rising to knee length in front and dipping to ankle length in back. Matching tulle jacket and headdress of feathers and net
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 3 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | silk satin, tulle, beads and sequins, net and feather headdress |
| Brief description | White silk satin and tulle Court presentation gown, beaded and embroidered, matching jacket |
| Physical description | Sleeveless V-necked shift dress in white satin overlaid with cream net embroidered with rosettes, silver sequins and pearls. Triple-layered tulle skirt rising to knee length in front and dipping to ankle length in back. Matching tulle jacket and headdress of feathers and net |
| Production type | Haute couture |
| Credit line | Given and worn by Margaret, Duchess of Argyll, for her presentation at Court in 1930 |
| Object history | Worn by Miss Margaret Whigham for her 1930 presentation at Court. The headdress was donated the following year, and is catalogued with this dress. Margaret Whigham was the only child of Helen Mann Hannay and George Hay Whigham, a Scottish millionaire who was chairman of the Celanese Corporation of England, North America, and Canada. After being educated privately in New York City, where she moved one week after her birth and lived until the age of 14, and making her debut in London in 1930, she announced her engagement to Charles Guy Fulke Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick. This wedding did not take place as she had fallen for Charles Sweeny, an American amateur golfer, and decided she was not sufficiently in love with Lord Warwick. Margaret and Charles Sweeny married 1933, divorced in 1947, and in 1951, she became the notorious Duchess of Argyll, third wife of the 11th Duke of Argyll. |
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| Accession number | T.5&A-1977 |
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| Record created | October 6, 2008 |
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