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Description: | /1. Dress: Leavers lace flouncing of pale pink de-lustred rayon ('angelskin'') and dark brown silk (or rayon); pattern of rows of bunches of overlapped scrolling leaves, enclosing spotted ground, bottom edge with tabbed scallops
/2. Sash: beige silk satin with crepe back, /1. DRESS: bodice: one front across bust with 2 vertical and 2 sloped waist darts, mounted on lining with scalloped edge at top; 2 backs, each with one waist dart; top extended over shoulders and gathered under front; scalloped edge at shoulder edge, cut and turned to edge of back neck; gathered at centre back wais
sleeves: to just below elbow, one piece, 2 darts at elbow; scalloped edge of lace at edge of sleeve
skirt: one front to side back, 2 waist darts in front; 2 centre backs, narrow at top and gathered, flared from hips; scalloped edge of lace at hem
lining: beige satin with crepe back; one bodice front, cut straight across bust; one bodice back, curved downwards from armholes; skirt of 3 panels
fastening: centre back, hooks and worked bar; metal 'Lightning' zip; brassiere strap retainers at top of bodice lining fastening with press-studs
/2 SASH: strip of satin folded into 5 pleats, gathered at ends; sewn to lining of self-fabric, 4 rows of stitches holding pleats in place; 3 non-ferrous 'bones' in pockets in lining; ends of strip strengthened with beige cotton net
fastening: 5 metal hooks, worked bars, Worn by donor’s grandmother, Mrs Elizabeth Pilsworth (nee Culley), b. 10.7.1888; married 1909 Alderman Louis Pilsworth (1887 – 1950) lace manufacturer in Nottingham, firstly with F W Pare & Co, then in partnership with Pare as Pare and Pilsworth, 1920 to c.1940. From c.1940 to his death he was listed as an embroidery manufacturer. The firm continued, becoming a limited company in c.1955, until 1985 when it closed down. Alderman was Sheriff in 1938 and Lord Mayor in 1941-2. They resided at 7 Sefton Drive, Mapperley Park, Nottingham
Accession number: NCMG 2005-48/1-2 | Subjects: | costume (women's) lace (machine-made : Leavers) | Temporal: | 1941-1942 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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