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Women's Evening Dress
Evening dress, white muslin and tambour work embroidery, trimmed with purple silk ribbon. The bodice is shaped by gathering at the neck edge and under the bust with drawstrings, which tie at the back and fasten with hooks. Hooks of flattened copper or brass wire were used from about 1815.
Tambour was a from of chain-stitch embroidery made by a fine hook and became increasingly fashionable from the 1780s.
Place: England
Object Type: evening dress
Period: George III
Broad Date: Regency
Actual Date: c. 1817
Century: 19th century
Materials: Muslin, Tambour
Museum Accession Number: 1984.16.2/CST.2.735