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Description: | white cotton lawn nightdress, entirely hand sewn, perhaps as a trousseau item. Unworn. Cut very full with side seams and side gussets; long very full gigot sleeves, with linen ruffles with narrow vandyked Torchon bobbin lace insertions and cream satin ribbon rosettes; cf opening to waist with 11 tiny pearl buttons and narrow fagotted edge; matching fagotted seams at yoke and under sleeves with very fine gathering; high yoke and very high collar with lace insertions, zigzag at yoke; 3 satin rosettes cf; bertha collar in linen from yoke; initials "M.S" embroidered in red below front opening.
Material: cotton
Material: lawn
Material: lace
Material: ribbon
nightdress, 1895 = 1897, (1998.83). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.10655 | Go to resource |
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