Afternoon Dress
1909 (made), 1911-12 (alteration)
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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
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | silk satin embroidered with silk and silver-gilt, embroidered muslin, velvet |
| Brief description | 1910, French; Satin, embroidered gilt thread |
| 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 |
| Credit line | Worn and given by Viscountess Gladstone |
| Object history | 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 |
| Associated object | T.157-1937 (Ensemble) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.156-1937 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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