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Day Dress

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Day Dress

Dress of cream cotton sateen, printed with a design of cupids and pink roses, 1878-80 This is a one-piece dress, which achieves a narrower silhouette, the new style at the end of the 1870s. From a ruched panel at he front the hip drapery swathes around to the back where a long gathered vertical section creates the bustle. The unusual printed fabric is perhaps part of a revival of the eighteenth century 'figured chintz', which became popular in the 1870s for looped up 'polonaise' styles, which resembled an eighteenth century form of dress.

School: English

Place: England

Object Type: dress

Period: Victoria

Broad Date: Mid Victorian

Actual Date: c. 1879

Century: 19th century

Material: Cotton sateen

Museum Accession Number: 1974.2.1/CST.1.344