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Day dress

Nicaud

The Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom

Blue silk day dress in the Chinoiserie style. It is pale grey-blue silk embroidered with geometric Chinese-style jigsaw-puzzle like lines in coloured silk, the borders of pale yellow edged with black and worked with delicate flowers on a pale yellow ground border edged in black. The bodice is trimmed with accordion-pleated silk chiffon frills and cut with a stylized Chinese-style assymetrical lapel fastening. Boned bodice with waist stay

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  • Title: Day dress
  • Creator: Nicaud
  • Date Created: 1900/1905
  • Location: France
  • Medium: embroidered silk and pleated chiffon
The Victoria and Albert Museum

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