bed jacket


bed jacket

Summary

White muslin, sprigged pale green, white embroidered lines, with machine made imitation and guipure lace. Fastens CF with four patterned buttons. Very large floppy collar, consisting of a square edged piece of muslin, trimmed with a strip of white machine guipure lace, and edged with a wider gathered strip. A ruffled layer of the muslin has been triple sewn to the hem. It is noticeably shorter at the back than the front. Long sleeves. The cuffs are decorated with a deep, diagonally set cuff of the machine lace. Jacket is quite grubby, and mended in some places.


Object Name

bed jacket

Date Created

1908

Dimensions

Length: 61cm

accession number

1984.83

Collection Group

costume
womenswear

Medium

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