Maternity dress
Category
Costume
Date
1878 - 1888
Materials
Silk, Wool
Collection
Killerton, Devon
NT 1363986
Summary
Maternity dress of chestnut coloured wool, long princess-line with standing colour, turned back cuffs and puffed back skirt, typical of 1878-80. Converted to maternity dress 1888 by addition of front panel of gathered cream silk, also used to trim cuffs. Front half-belt and pleated hemline strip of chestnut wool also added (strip taken fron original hem?) Needlerun net tucked into collar and cuffs. 1878 - 1888 (circa)
Provenance
belonged to donor's grandmother who died in childbirth in 1888.