Day Dress
1900-1905 (made)
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Blue silk day dress in the Chinoiserie style. It is pale grey-blue silk embroidered with geometric Chinese-style jigsaw-puzzle like lines in coloured silk, the borders of pale yellow edged with black and worked with delicate flowers on a pale yellow ground border edged in black. The bodice is trimmed with accordion-pleated silk chiffon frills and cut with a stylized Chinese-style assymetrical lapel fastening. Boned bodice with waist stay
Object details
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| Brief description | Silk day dress, ca. 1900, French; Nicaud |
| Physical description | Blue silk day dress in the Chinoiserie style. It is pale grey-blue silk embroidered with geometric Chinese-style jigsaw-puzzle like lines in coloured silk, the borders of pale yellow edged with black and worked with delicate flowers on a pale yellow ground border edged in black. The bodice is trimmed with accordion-pleated silk chiffon frills and cut with a stylized Chinese-style assymetrical lapel fastening. Boned bodice with waist stay |
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| Production type | Haute couture |
| Credit line | Given by Captain Collingwood Ingram |
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| Accession number | T.208-1927 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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