Dress
Category
Costume
Date
1800 - 1810
Materials
Linen, Muslin, Net
Collection
Killerton, Devon
NT 1360665
Summary
Dress - Cream muslin with embroidered spot. Originally high stomacher front but bodice and skirt now seperate, actual stomacher panel missing. Bodice, very high waist. Linen pieces would pin across front and would have been covered by stomacher panel. Long sleeves, slightly puffed at top and set well into back. Band of net below upper sleeve, remaining portion narrow to wrist. skirt straight, front ungathered, back gathered and tied by tape. Originally attached to back of bodice. Skirt joined and bodice front added 1986 by Miss Dean. Petticoat made. (PR/KIL/W/1657). 1800 - 1810 (circa)