skirt


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

costume
womenswear

Medium

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