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Description: | Brown silk skirt made of seven pieces of fabric, lined with cotton, machine and hand sewn. Velvet piping on hem. Black waistband, unlikely to be original, and lots of alteration around waist. Hook and eye fastening centre back, at waist. Extra decorative brown fabric attached in scolloped style around external hem of skirt. Featured on Antiques Roadshow in January 2011 and dated c.1880s. Belonged to Meg Harbutt, a devout congregrationalist, who was Mrs Sylvester's mother's godmother. Meg was the 8th and last child of Thomas and Elizabeth Whitehouse, and was born in North Shields on 7th Febuary 1841. This was Meg's wedding outfit, but was never used as her fiancé died before the wedding and apparently Mrs Sylvester's mother wore the outfit twice for highland flings (note: skirt waistband has been let out with elastic).
Material: textile, silk
Material: textile, cotton
Material: textile, velvet | Source: | Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums | Identifier: | emu.ecatalogue.costume&textiles.261955 | Go to resource |
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