Description
Detail of woman’s dress, Going-Away or tailor-made dress, consisting of bodice and matching skirt, in royal blue wool facecloth decorated with a scrolling border design in applied slightly purple-blue silk velvet, navy ribbed silk, wide and narrow navy silk braids. Bodice with high standing collar, fastening centre front with alternatively overlapping tabs with buttons, full-length sleeves. Labelled ‘Mesdes Hayward Court Dressmakers 64 New Bond Str. London W.’ Skirt, full-length, gored-panels flaring out below the knee. Fastening centre front waist with alternatively overlapping tabs. Centre-front and hem decorated with appliquéd pattern edged with braid. Worn by Elizabeth Holms-Kerr after her wedding to John Deans Hope.
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