dress & pelerine


dress & pelerine

Summary

Pinkish fawn silk. Bodice lined with white cotton. Rounded neckline. CB fastening with drawstring at neck, hooks and eyes below. Long sleeves beneath short puffed oversleeves, trimmed with three piped arrowhead shaped pieces linked to shouder by three bands and trimmed with four silk knots on each. Skirt, which had been unpicked from bodice, trimmed towards hem. Pelerine : Lined with white silk. Rounded corners. Round neck fastening with hook and eye under bow. Edge trimmed with two piped bias bands each headed with double piping.


Object Name

dress & pelerine

Date Created

1823-1827

Dimensions

Length: 132.1cm
Pelerine: 27.9cm x 63.5cm
Shoulder to waist: 33cm
Hem: 223.5cm
Waist: 55.9cm

accession number

1955.311

Medium

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