Wedding dress overskirt
Category
Costume
Date
1875
Materials
Muslin, Net, Silk taffeta
Collection
Killerton, Devon
NT 1363089.3
Summary
Part of an ivory silk taffeta, three piece dress; bodice, skirt and overskirt. Overskirt; ruched tablier or apron front trimmed with a deep band net and fringing with vertical row of bows to front, sash back, lined with stiff muslin. 1875 (circa)
Provenance
note - N.Bradfield's ref 'D325 lent by Mrs J. King, worn by Mrs King's grandmother at her wedding on 15th April 1875 (over Thouson's crinolette) Illustrated N.B Costume in Detail p 223-226.