Dress
Category
Costume
Date
1865 - 1870
Materials
Cotton, Silk, Steel, Wool
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349144
Summary
Dress - A woman's alpaca dress dating from 1865-1870. Fabric - Shell pink alpaca (natural colour weft). Lining - Bodice and sleeves lined with unbleached cotton. Hem is faced with glazed cotton. Cut - Waistline slightly high. Front fastening, stepped at the waist. Placket opening to the left side of the skirt. Wide curved neckline. Close fitting bodice. 2 pairs of bust darts. Right front edge slants from neck to waist. Boned at side seams, left front edge and at one dart either side. Short puffed sleeves. Set-in waistband. Trained skirt, pleated all round with inverted pleats at the side and box pleats centre-back. Bow of self-fabric centre-back with 3 loops and 2 long tails. Fob pocket to right with black velvet ribbon. Seams machine stitched on bodice; front seams hand run on skirt. Trimmings - Cream satin ribbon piping round edge of sleeve and bodice and double row round neck and front of bodice. Folded satin Vandyking round neck and front of bodice. Row of satin ribbon bows down centre-front skirt. Bronze silk fringe round edge of bodice. Fastenings - 2 rows of steel hooks centre-front. 1 row of 6 joins eyelets in left hand edge centre-front, the other row of 5 on slanted edge meets slanting row of buttonhole bars. 2 heavy steel hooks on waistband. (Cross Ref. Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' p219-20, H). (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade