Stomacher
Category
Costume
Date
1700 - 1749
Materials
Linen, Whalebone
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348933
Summary
Stomacher - Whalebone, covered with quilted linen rep embroidered in a floral design in polychrome silk. Backstitched vermicular ground. Edges and flap bound with silk tape and criss-crossed with round lacing cord. Cf Janet Arnold 'Patterns of Fashion' pg. 28, Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' p.67
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade
References
Bradfield, 1968: Nancy Bradfield, Costume in Detail, 1730-1930, Harrop, London, 1968, p.67. Arnold 1977: Janet Arnold, Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwomen’s dresses and their construction c.1660-1860, Macmillan Publishers Limited, 1977, p. 28.