tea dress
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact11624
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV985.3512.1
- Description
- Tea dress, c.1908. White cotton lawn, lace embroidery. High stand collar, three quarter length sleeves, floor length skirt with more fullness towards the bottom. Slight puff at bodice from gathering at waist. The high stand collar is made of lace. On either side of the centre back, there are vertical bands in a pattern: lawn with tiny pin tucks halfway down, lace, eyelet lawn, lace, pin tucked lawn. There are also the same vertical bands on the front, but they are interrupted at various points by horizontal and triangle shapes of lace and lawn embroidered with abstract patterns. The sleeves are lawn on the inside, and covered in bands of lace and eyelet lawn on the outside. The cuffs are made with ruffled bands of lace. The bodice is gathered on all sides at the waist, which is defined by a horizontal band of eyelet lawn bordered by two bands of lace. The skirt extends from the waist with vertical bands of lace and lawn. Just below the hips there is a horizontal band of eyelet lawn, and the next section is pleated to that. It is made with two panels, with floral embroidery. The bottom is scalloped and embroidered, but there is still a separate hem attached beneath it. The bodice closes up the centre back from the neck to the hips with pearl ball buttons.
- Subjects
- Clothing
- Clothing - Costumes