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Description: | Pale blue/green wool, with embroidery.
Bodice lined with white figured cotton to hip. Low U shaped neck with two frills of lace inside. Fastening CF to lower hip with fourteen white buttons, hook and loop at neck. Boned to waist. Bust improvers of wadding covered with cotton sewn inside. Designs of floral sprays and leaves in shades of pink, fawn, green and white embroidered in silks round neck. Imitation rosette bow of pale blue/green and dark green silk satin at neck. Similar bow with long ends at base of front opening. Silk embroiery backed with muslin, round hemline. Sides continue from lower hip level to form long square ended train, bordered with embroidery, backed with muslin. Train section caught up to join skirt with parti-coloured bow. Embroidered pocket on right side back at hip level with ribbon bow at bottom. Petersham ribbon waistband inside fastening with two hooks and eyes. Tapes inside to tie across back. Elbow length sleeves with parti-coloured bow at elbow.
Separate skirt on white cotton waistband, fastening CB with two hooks and eyes. Two wool bands at hemline. Two additional bands CF. Hem lined with white muslin. Tape drawstring across back.
Technique: embroidering
Technique: Figured
Material: wool
Material: cotton
Material: muslin | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.19713 | Go to resource |
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