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Description: | Blue silk crepe day dress, influenced by wartime uniform styling.
Separate bodice with loose panel each side below waist. Elbow length sleeves. CF open to reveal embroidered panel on underbodice. Press fasteners each side of bodice for attaching to underbodice. Stiffened pleated waistband, fastening with three press fasteners left of front, two press fasteners inside back for attaching to underbodice. Skirt over blue botton lining, gathered to blue cotton underbodice with square neck and no sleeves, fastening down CB, and with rectangular CF panel formed of three strips of blue muslin embroidered with flowers in pale shades of blue, pink and green silk.
Technique: embroidering
Material: silk
Material: muslin
Material: chenille
Material: cotton
silk dress, 1917-19
silk dress, detail, 1917-19
silk dress, embroidery detail, 1917-19 | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.20680 | Go to resource |
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