petticoat


petticoat

Summary

White cotton. Wide rounded neck with embroidered edging; bodice front in one bias section, dart for bust at waist each side, separate narrow shoulder sections; side seams piped; back in one section each side of CB opening, gathered at CB waist, fastening with drawstring at top and bottom of neck edging; hook and eye below, drawstring at top and bottom of tape-lined waistband; short full sleeves in one section, closely gathered to shoulder and at outer arm to lace-edged embroidered band at lower edge; skirt front in one slightly flared section two sections each side flared towards back, slit at hip in right back seam, back in one with closely gathered to waistband at centre; sixteen lines of piping at hem.


Object Name

petticoat

Date Created

1825-1835

Dimensions

Length: 129.5cm
circumference at hem: 264.2cm
shoulder to waist: 30.5cm
waist: 68.6cm

accession number

1947.1935

Medium

Legal

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