1988.48.1

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Details

ID Number

1988.48.1

Category

Personal Artifacts

Sub-category

clothing - outerwear

Item Name

nightgown

Materials

TEXTILE, COTTON

Description

White cotton; high neck with eyelet ruffle; vertical bands of eyelet and tiny tucks at front yoke; long sleeves with eyelet ruffle at wrist; front opening from left shoulder to above waist, fastens with tiny fabric-covered buttons, edged with eyelet ruffle; handsewn; back and front are each one piece; larger vertical tucks from neckline at back.

History

On paper pinned to nightgown when donated: "This modest nightgown embroidered and tucked dates from the early nineties when clothes were made to last. It belonged to Mrs. A.D. Bowlby nee Edith Ellen Adams."

Collection Name

Museum Windsor

Subject (Fre)

Y

Subjects

Bowlby, Edith Margaret person

Costume / Costumes subject

Textiles subject

Women / Femmes subject