Girl's dress
Category
Costume
Date
1895 - 1905
Materials
Silk, crochet lace, torchon lace, broderie anglaise, cotton lawn, glass buttons.
Measurements
570 x 690 mm
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 603171
Summary
A girl's dress made from cream silk. The dress has half-length puffed sleeves, trimmed on the cuffs with a combination of white torchon lace and cream crochet lace, with matching trim, lace insertion and tucking on the yoke and a yoke frill trimmed with broderie anglaise. The lower skirt is tucked, with torchon and crochet lace insertion in horizontal bands and a scalloped broderie anglaise hem. The bodice is lined in white silk, the sleeves are lined in white lawn and the skirt is unlined. It fastens centre back with 3 figured glass buttons, intact.
Provenance
Gift of Parkinson-Cumine
Marks and inscriptions
Left arm hole, inner seam.: A handwritten label attached to an inner seam reads, "Parkinson-Cumine", the donor. See associated photograph for further details.