Object: Dress
Date: c. 1830
Medium: White organdy and pink satin
Country: England
Credit Line: Museum purchase
Object number: P73.1.3
DescriptionWhite organdy dress with pink satin trim; off the shoulder collar bound in pink satin, with deep V front; raised waist, shirred balloon sleeves on drop shoulders, tapering to satin cord trimmed cuff; wide skirt with soft, unpressed pleats at waist; pink satin cord and triangular motifs above wide hem
Label Text:In late 18th- and early 19th-century Europe, cotton was an imported luxury, making it a highly fashionable and expensive material for this dress. The fiber was in common use, however, in parts of Africa, Asia, and the Americas, where the cotton plant had been domesticated by 3500 BCE.
Exhibitions:
- Fabric In Fashion