Open robe
Category
Costume
Date
1718 - 1720
Materials
Linen, Silk brocade
Measurements
560 mm (W)560 mm (Length)
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348701
Summary
Dress; Open robe - Apple green ground silk brocade with large scale formalised floral design arranged in wide stripes in coral pink, deep mistletoe green and ivory. Bodice lined with unbleached linen. Sleeves lined with deep apple green taffeta. Seamed at waist. Bodice front plain, meeting edge-to-edge. Shallow 'V' neck. Narrow strip over shoulder and across back neck. Back cut in one piece extending at centre into skirt, with stitched-down pleats to waist. Wide sleeves with deep turn back cuff. Skirt of 7 widths of fabric, deeply pleated at back and side front into triangular extensions at waist side. Untrimmed. Modern tape ties at centre front bodice and back inside waist. Bodice front has been altered - originally much longer and possibly pleated - extra fabric folder back at neck. Sleeves re-set. Shoulder pieces not as original. Waist seam stitched later with possible re-arrangement of pleating. Hem restitched. Pocket slits ovesewn. (Note by Natalie Rothstein); Fabric 1718-20. English rather than French although for English fabric wider than usual. Cf design by James Leman c. 1918-20 E. 4450-1909 V and A. Line drawing included with inventory card. (female)
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection
References
Bradfield, 1968: Nancy Bradfield, Costume in Detail, 1730-1930, Harrop, London, 1968, pp.3-4