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1905 (made)
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Place of origin

Dress consisting of a coat, bodice and skirt. It is made of natural linen trimmed with gilt embroidery, gilt ribbon, pink silk, machine-made lace, crochet and pseudo 18th century buttons.

Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 4 parts.

  • Coat
  • Bodice
  • Skirt
  • Lining
Materials and techniques
Embroidered linen with gilt and silver threads, machine-made lace, wool, net, boned, lined with silk and taffeta, faced with satin
Brief description
Dress consisting of a coat, bodice and skirt of embroidered linen, Caney, New York, 1905
Physical description
Dress consisting of a coat, bodice and skirt. It is made of natural linen trimmed with gilt embroidery, gilt ribbon, pink silk, machine-made lace, crochet and pseudo 18th century buttons.
Credit line
Given by Major and Mrs Broughton
Object history
This walking dress was owned by Cara Broughton, née Cara Leland Huttleston Rogers (1867-1939), who married Urban Hanlon Broughton (1857-1929) in 1895. As Urban H. Broughton died before he could be elevated to a peerage, their eldest son Urban H.R. Broughton (1896-1966) became 1st Baron Fairhaven of Lode on 20 March 1929, while Cara became 1st Lady Fairhaven. This barony became extinct on Urban H.R.Broughton's death, but a later barony, Baron Fairhaven of Anglesey Abbey, co. Cambridge, was granted to him in 1961, with a remainder to his brother, Henry (1900-1973), to enable this title to continue after his death without male heirs.

This forms part of a large donation of late 19th and early 20th century garments and accessories (with a few historical textiles) donated to the Museum in 1972 by Cara's grandson and Henry's son, Major Ailwyn Broughton and his wife, a year before Ailwyn became Lord Fairhaven following his father's death.

Some of the nineteenth century garments are thought to have been worn by Cara's sister, Anne (1865-1924).
Collection
Accession number
T.274 to B-1972

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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