Object name: Dress: bodice and skirt with parts / Object class: Main garments / Collection place: London, England - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Dress: bodice and skirt with parts, accession number 7-7289a-f, described as c.1905? a) bodice - "Pitt, Piccadilly W." on waistband center back. Light tan wool flannel. Fastens down center front. Decorated profusely with ecru colored lace edging and embroidered net lace. Bands of finely tucked ecru colored taffeta decorate front and back shoulder line. Used as tiny panels on lower front and create portion sleeves. High neck and decorative neckline trimmed with grey velveteen ribbon and series of crepe du chine covered buttons that match garment color, decorate bodice front and neckline. Silk taffeta waistband dips to small point in front, is above natural waist in back, appliqued embroidered net medallion center back. Bodice front has tree decorative tuckings on either side and five decorative tuckings in back from arms to waist. Sleeves removed. Cream colored silk taffeta, shattering.Three hooks center back to attach skirt shoulder to waist 19", 13.5" neck b) Skirt is plain, same flannel, unlined. Three bands of machine stitching where hem is turned up, about 2.5" from bottom hem. Very soiled. Three thread covered eyes on outside of waistband to connect to hooks in bodice. 3-4 small holes from insect damage. Hem to waist front 37", hem to waist back 45.5" C-F.)Top of sleeve full decorated with two lozenge insertions of embroidered net and one small rectangle of embroidered net in between. Lower sleeve made of tucked taffeta has insertion of embroidered net running around hem and to edge where it would have been originally joined to flannel portion. Bottom hem in finished with grey velveteen ribbon.