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Description: | yellow Leavers machine-made lace (allover pattern of 'shadow' leaves and glossy berries in threes, each with 4 bars of net); yellow rayon crepe, /1. DRESS: of lace; bodice: curved front neck, above 2 crescents, one top-stitched to the other; waist piece with concave top and bottom edges; deep curved back neck above crescent, top-stitched to one back with points at hips; attached scarf at neck, draped in at front and hanging to points at back
sleeves: none
skirt: one front of 3 inverted curves, one main piece below, from hips; one main back, slightly trained, of a quarter-circle, scalloped edge; floating side panels with pleats at the seams with the inverted curves; much of the vertical seaming by hand-whipping around the lace motifs
/2. SLIP: of crepe; one main piece, bias-cut; curved front neck sloped to V at centre back; centre back seam with sloped darts; large piece to make up length in front, with piece of similar fabric let in; shoulders straps of folded flesh coloured rayon net
/3. JACKET: of lace; 2 fronts, one back; all pieced; folded back square lapels; sloped dow to point at centre back
sleeves: long, one piece, seamed up to join shoulder seam; wrist end stiched to make 2 loops each side of centre seam, open at lower end; large armholes,
Accession number: NCM 1982-304/1-3 | Subjects: | costume (women's) lace (machine-made : Leavers) | Temporal: | 1936 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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