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COLEM:1945.171

Colchester Collections

bodice, bodice

Bodice of light khaki with large elaborate pagoda sleeves and decorated with jaquard ribbon and chenille roundels. Circa 1855. High piped neckline & bodice has two large pleats from shoulder to ruched front centre point & boned from bust to centre front point & centre front fastening of twelve buttons and holes covered with silk & drop shoulder line concealed by pleating of bodice across shoulder, and piped & back of bodice has 8 horizontal rows of chevrons made of chenille roundels & large pagoda sleeves with an extra top layer consisting of a rectangle edged with wide floral jaquard ribbon that is trimmed with same roundels, with three tassels down the front edge & actual pagoda sleeve is trimmed with same jaquard ribbon and roundels and is lined in silk with pleated ribbon around the openings & bodice has a cotton calico lining.

1855

Victorian

front centre length: 580.00 mm
back centre length: 430.00 mm

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