Dress
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1770
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Bromley Hall, (Middlesex, England, 1712–1763)
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Woman's printed cotton dress, with a low neckline gathered on to a drawstring in front; across the back fullness is gathered into sewn-down pleats across the shouler blades. The dress hangs waistless to the floor, and has a small train in the back. Close-fitting set-in sleeves. Ruffle around the neck and hem edges. Pocket slits in side seams. A plain linen lining in the top forms a fitted inner bodice, with holes for lacing in front. The fabric is copper plate printed in red on a white ground, with thin meandering branches, a few clusters of small flowers, intersected by a meandering arrangement of flower buds.
place: label: made in
content: England
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase from Au Panier Fleuri Fund
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1960-72-2
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Dress
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved copper plate on plain weave
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (Height of Center back; Shoulder Width; Waist circumference): 142.2 × 30.5 × 71.1 cm (56 × 12 × 28 in.)