Child's dress
Category
Costume
Date
circa 1905 - circa 1915
Materials
Linen
Measurements
515 mm (length)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 667696
Summary
A child's white linen dress with a slightly dropped waist, which is richly decorated with broderie anglaise (circa 1905 toc circa 1915). The garment is possibly made from older fabric. It has a round neckline edged with narrow broderie anglaise, and cap sleeves formed by edging the armholes with wide broderie anglaise. It has a square yoke at the front made from broderie anglaise with a pattern of circles, which has a narrow frill at the lower edge. In the centre of the main front piece is a panel of twelve vertical pintucks, edged on either side by a narrow broderie anglaise border. The skirt is attached on the outside, i.e. with a frill protruding above the join, and has three pintucks about one third of the way down, below which are two broderie anglaise frills, the top one less deep than the bottom one. It fastens at the back with a length of tape threaded through a channel at the neck edge, and by fabric ties set in to the side seams, each with a narrow broderie anglaise border at the end. There are several brown stains, both side seams are split between the armhole and the skirt, and the broderie anglaise on the skirt frill is torn.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs Daw.