dress; house dress; tea gown

Martin, Miss

circa 1890-1892

wool, silk, cotton, metal

Scotland, Uddingston, Bellshill Road, Aliwal Villa (place of manufacture)

Detail of woman’s dress or house dress in multi-coloured jacquard woven wool re-used from two imitation Kashmiri shawls. Standing collar in green silk velvet. Princessline body with vertically pleated panel front edged with fringed shawl borders concealing fastening with fifteen metal hook and eye. Sleeves, full- length, with puffed shoulders tapering to fitted wrist with turned-back cuffs faced in green silk velvet. Half-belt in green silk velvet. Skirt, full-length, with double box pleat at centre back shoulders falling away detached from centre back, rejoining skirt and flowing into slight train. Labelled ‘Miss Martin Aliwal Villa, Uddingston’.

DRESS

bust: 890 mm; footprint: 800 mm x 600 mm; waist: 690 mm