Medium: Silk velvet

Date: c.1910

Country: England

Credit: Museum purchase

Designed to meet standards of comfort and beauty, this dress’ smocked yoke and waist ensure a comfortable fit. Embroidery techniques such as smocking referenced the anti-industrialist attitudes of the Arts and Crafts Movement and associated Liberty’s garments with handmade craftsmanship. Liberty’s dresses were desired by Aesthetes, intellectuals, and bohemians well into the twentieth century.

Object Number: P90.83.2