Black Silk Dress with Train

VC1992105

Black Silk Dress with Train

Dress of black silk trimmed with lace, black, and ivory embroidery and lace high collar inset at neckline. Long sleeves with embroidered cuffs. Full length skirt with train.

1904 (circa)

Clothing and dress

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e0-ebb3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

24 inches (waist), 61 inches (center front length), other measurements: bodice center front length = 13.75(bottom of neck to bottom of inner waistband)

Physical Object

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Arden Kirkland 2023-02-25

24

61

bodice center front length = 13.75(bottom of neck to bottom of inner waistband)

24 inches (waist), 61 inches (center front length), other measurements: bodice center front length = 13.75(bottom of neck to bottom of inner waistband)

Juliette Tallet / Robes & Manteaux / 115 E. 30th St., N.Y.

1899

1909

costume

clothing

good

Exterior = very good, almost excellent, but lining is shredded.

child's

L4

There is a lot left still to be learned about this dress. The lines of the dress are very unconventional and deliberate. This dress is a bit of an outlier as it has Aesthetic elements about it (such as the flowers and the patterns in the lace modesty panel) and yet the construction of the bodice is not quite free flowing enough to be fully Aesthetic. Perhaps the skirt, with its swirling illusion, is what keeps it in firmly in the aesthetic realm.To preserve this dress, first the collar and modesty panel were reinforced with conservation net. The skirt lining has barely survived and must be replaced if it is to be mounted again. Various colors of thread were used to trace the complicated manner in which the outer skirt is attached to the inner skirt. Next, the inner skirt lining will be removed and used as a pattern to create a new lining. Researched and Stabilized by Emily Leimkuhler ‘10