Gown bodice
Category
Costume
Date
1742 - 1744
Materials
Silk, Taffeta
Collection
Killerton, Devon
NT 1360460.1
Summary
Gown bodice - English Spitalfeilds silk gown. Pink / buff taffeta ground with sprig carried out by flushing weft, brocaded. Single comber repeat. 26 1/4 in long 19 in between selvedges - striped crimson and plain. Bodice in three pieces, two halves with what appears to be stomacher. 'Robe en foureau' considerably altered at later date. 1742 - 1744 (circa)