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Description: | Victorian copper alloy dress lifter. Dress lifters were used to prevent long dresses from trailing in the mud by hoisting the skirt up. The two circular discs would be placed around the hem of the skirt. The discs could then be locked into place by pushing the copper alloy band at the top of the device down towards the discs, so that the hem was gripped by the device. There is a small copper alloy attachment loop at the top of the device. A thread would be passed through this loop up towards the waist. This would allow the wearer to lift her skirts up and down without having to bend down. Dress lifters were often decorated, in comparrison this is a plain example.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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