skirt
Summary
Cream net embroidered with sequins and beads, over cream chiffon and silk. Net skirt in five sections with train, fastening CB with hooks and eyes; embroidered in silver and black sequins, jet and steel beads and dark metal strip in design of dark trellis panels enclosed in curves against silver sequins, with leaves embroidered in metal strip; frill round hem of spotted machine net with narrow black velvet ribbon edging; caught at intervals near hem to chiffon underskirt with double chiffon frill and net frill edged with black velvet ribbon with frill CB; attached at top of chiffon frill to silk underskirt in six sections with pleated frill at base with pinked edge decorated with pinked ruched strip; weighted strip CB, enclosed in silk.
Object Name
skirt
Date Created
1897
Dimensions
waist: 152.4cm
circumference (hem): 360.7cm
length: 61cm
accession number
1953.131
Collection Group
Medium
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