Dress
c. 1810-1815
Silk twill with embroidery
Museum purchase
Object number2020.2.1
By around 1810, a vogue for plain dress fabrics had given way to a flowering of ornamentation. The embroidered panel situated at the hem of this dress, which was probably worn for evening, features a meandering, naturalistic design of roses. It includes the flower (face and reverse), its bud, leaves shaded in two colors, and thorny stems.
DescriptionOff-white silk twill embroidered dress; bodice trimmed with bobbin lace drawstrings at waist neck and top of bust; short sleeves trimmed with ribbon bows, scalloped and corded puffs and lace; flat front skirt, pleated into waistband at sides and back with pattern of scrolling rose vines and leaf border in chain, long and short, satin and looped buttonhole stitchesCollections
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