Child's feeder
Category
Costume
Date
circa 1900 - circa 1929
Materials
Cotton
Measurements
320 mm (length)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 658529
Summary
A child's cream-white cotton 'feeder' - a bib type garment (circa 1900 to circa 1929). It has a full front joined at the shoulders to back pieces which extend to just below the waist. The fabric has a tiny, regular, all-over pattern worked into the threads. Attached to the inside of the centre front is a strip of fabric joined to each side of which is a length of tape which passes through a channel sewn on the inside of the back waist then ties at the centre back. Both the centre front strip and the centre back channels gather the fabric of the garment with smocking stitches around the seams on the right side. All the edges except the centre back have an edging of 'linked loops'. As well as the fastening at the waist there is a narrower channel at the neck edge which has a very narrow length of tape threaded through.