Corset bodice
Category
Costume
Date
1800 - 1825
Materials
Wool
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350121
Summary
Corset bodice - Made from green, blue, yellow and brown striped wool with a warp faced rib. It has a strip of murrey wool tabby down both fronts and it is lined with coarse unbleached linen. It is trimmed with black wool braid around the hem with velvet ribbon around the neck and the armholes. There are 10 pairs of eyelet holes down the centre front opening. (female)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade