Day dress
Category
Costume
Date
1860
Materials
Linen, Metal, Silk taffeta
Measurements
1490 mm (Length)760 mm (W)910 mm (W)600 mm (Length)
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Killerton, Devon
NT 1363258
Summary
Day dress of silk taffeta with fine woven check of purplish blue; plain bodice, round neck, front opening fastened with hooks and thread loops with eleven decorative thread buttons, coat / Amadis sleeves, round waist, full skirt (hem circumference 16 ft) bodice lined in linen, handsewn throughout. Alterations; hook fastenings to waist replaced by press-studs; skirt now machine gathered and machine zig zag sewn onto waist (may have originally been pleated). 1860 (circa)