Dressing Gown
1885 (made)
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White cotton dressing gown trimmed with lilac ribbons. Woven stripe and check trimmed with openwork embroidery and silk ribbons. Full length with a high round neck, long leg-of-mutton sleeves and is fitted with a Princess line, though at the back of the knee in the back breadth is attached a rounded gathered skirt which forms a train. The main and centre back seams are faced. The trimming, which consists of white open-work embroidery, through which is threaded lilac silk ribbon marks the side front, the side back and the junction of the skirt. It also forms the collar and cuffs. There are long oval gussets of the same, partially lined with white cotton, and trimming each side of the front from neck to hip. The gown fastens with Nicholls dress hooks with metal hooks, the opening trimmed with made-up lilac ribbon bows. It is faced under the fastening with white glazed cotton. Roughly tacked over the hooks and eyes is white cotton, as though to protect the garment from rust and catching.
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Materials and techniques | Cotton trimmed with openwork embroidery and silk, and partially lined with cotton |
Brief description | Cotton dressing gown trimmed with openwork embroidery and silk, Great Britain, 1885 |
Physical description | White cotton dressing gown trimmed with lilac ribbons. Woven stripe and check trimmed with openwork embroidery and silk ribbons. Full length with a high round neck, long leg-of-mutton sleeves and is fitted with a Princess line, though at the back of the knee in the back breadth is attached a rounded gathered skirt which forms a train. The main and centre back seams are faced. The trimming, which consists of white open-work embroidery, through which is threaded lilac silk ribbon marks the side front, the side back and the junction of the skirt. It also forms the collar and cuffs. There are long oval gussets of the same, partially lined with white cotton, and trimming each side of the front from neck to hip. The gown fastens with Nicholls dress hooks with metal hooks, the opening trimmed with made-up lilac ribbon bows. It is faced under the fastening with white glazed cotton. Roughly tacked over the hooks and eyes is white cotton, as though to protect the garment from rust and catching. |
Credit line | Given by Linda Stubbs |
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Accession number | T.391-1988 |
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Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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