Bodice
Madame Marie Derry
Category
Costume
Date
1900
Materials
Cotton, Silk
Measurements
315 mm (Length)470 mm (Length)
Place of origin
York Place
Order this imageCollection
Dunham Massey, Cheshire
NT 934416.1
Summary
Cream silk satin bodice, cream net with gilt thread spots; lining, cream silk plain weave gauze, cream silk plain weave, eleven bones, tapes, two underarm pads filled with lavender; trimming, cream cotton machine lace embroidered with cream floss silk in satin stitches, gilt sequins and single and plied gilt thread, couched; fringe of gold glass round and bugle beads, cream cotton machine lace with cream cordonnet, outlining design of flowers on a flower sprigged ground; gilt draw strings; black cotton net; with skirt DUN/TC/120.2. Label 'Madame Marie Derry, 36 York Place, W. Court Dressmaker'.
Provenance
Costume of Lady Stamford (1864-1961)
Marks and inscriptions
Madame Marie Derry, 36 York Place, W. Court Dressmaker.
Makers and roles
Madame Marie Derry, dressmaker