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Dress

The Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum
London, United Kingdom

Girl's dress of mid-blue shot silk lined with white glazed cotton, the bodice robings and skirt border and sleeve cuffs all trimmed with black velvet ribbon appliquéd in Greek key pattern. The dress has a scoop neck, to which a tucker of machine-made lace has been attached and short sleeves with puffed inner sleeves of white machine-embroidered lawn. The bodice comes to a shallow point at front and back, and the skirt is attached to it in unpressed box pleats, except at the waist back where it is cartridge pleated. A pocket of white glazed cotton is concealed in the skirt in a seam toward the true right-hand side, and the skirt has a false hem of blue ribbon. The waist front has a panel of gauging over a narrow busk of metal, and the garment fastens at the back with loops and blue silk-wound buttons.

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  • Title: Dress
  • Date Created: 1850/1859
  • Location: England
  • Physical Dimensions: Length: 60.5 cm centre back
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