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Description: | The costume collection ranges in date from an 18th century hand-painted silk gown from Paris to a 1970s wedding dress purchased in Fenwick's and worn in 1974 by a local woman. It is chiefly female attire, but includes some male dress such as uniform and agricultural clothing; houeshold linens; and embroideries.
The highlights of the collection are an Edwardian tea gown; a Worth gown and accessories worn at a court presentation by a local woman in 1930; a National Fire Service jacket worn by Edward Reynolds, the first Captain of the Bridport Fire Brigade in 1896; and a mayoral robe designed and worn by Edward Reynolds in 1919.
There is a good range of accessories including footwear; bags; fans; parasols; gloves; glove stretchers; headwear; hatpins; and spectacles. There is some jewellery and a variety of decorative ornaments including stamp holders and card cases.
The small lace collection is not local. There are also dolls in costume from both Britain and abroad. The Rev Dr Donald Omand, former rector of Chideock (d.1971) gave his collection of dolls collected over a number of years from circus folk. The collection includes a fabric sailor doll from clown Grock, wooden figures, terracotta figures, Peggy Nisbet dolls, and other commercially manufactured dolls. | Subjects: | Costume & Textile | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | South Street
Bridport,
DT6 3NR | FAX: | 01308 420 659 | Telephone: | 01308 422 116 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:3772 | Go to resource |
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