Girl's dress
Category
Costume
Date
1900 - 1920
Materials
Fine cotton lawn, crochet lace, Mountmellick-style whitework embroidery, buttons.
Measurements
460 x 750 mm
Place of origin
Ireland
Collection
Springhill, County Londonderry
NT 605026
Summary
A girl's dress made from white fine cotton lawn. The long-sleeved dress is trimmed on the cuffs, neckline and on the waistband with white crochet lace, with Mountmellick-style whitework embroidery on the sleeves, tucked bib, skirt front and around the tucked hem front and back. It is unlined and fastens centre back with five self-covered buttons, intact.
Provenance
Gift of Shelia Lewis-Crosby