Overdress
Category
Costume
Date
1835 - 1840
Materials
Brass, Cotton, Metal, Silk
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349141
Summary
Dress - A woman's silk dress dating from 1835-1840. Fabric - Cream silk, block printed with ruby red polyanthus flowers, green leaves and trailing black stems. Lining - Fully lined with unbleached cotton, that in the skirt being a lighter quality. Hem faced with white lawn. Cut - Slightly high waistline with shallow point renter-front. Wide, curving neckline and dropped shoulders. Bodice front is cut in 4 sections with renter seam and seams running diagonally from the middle of the shoulder towards the renter point. renter back opening extends into skirt. Boned renter-back. 'Victoria' sleeve with large puff above elbow with self-frill above. Tight, fastening cuff with 2 folded strips of fabric. Full skirt with knife pleating front - the pleats facing renter-front, and organ pleating at the back. Piped seams. Top edge of skirt and lining turned in towards each other before pleating. Fastenings - Drawstring at neck. 10 pairs eyelets renter-back (for lacing), worked through reinforcing tape. 2 brass hooks and worked bar on cuffs (1 hook missing). (Cross Ref. Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' p171, B104, Charles Wade Cat.Number G.22). (female) Wade catalogue number G.22 "Dress of printed silk, polyanthus design. Vict." Bought from Mrs Solomon for £2.2.0
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade