1890S CREAM SILK SATIN DRESS WITH BEADED BODICE AND TRAINED SKIRT

1890S CREAM SILK SATIN DRESS WITH BEADED BODICE AND TRAINED SKIRT

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$850.00

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Item Code: 1307-33

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This 1890s cream silk satin dress with beaded bodice and trained skirt, from the Texas Civil War Museum, could have been worn as a reception dress, an evening dress, or a wedding gown.

The closely-fitted bodice is the star of the show. It has a high neckline and voluminous balloon sleeves ending at the elbow with a deep lace ruffle. The sleeves are lined with heavily starched canvas to help hold their shape. The front of the bodice has arranged gathers on the upper chest and closes with hooks and thread bars. A V-shaped overlay on the front begins on each side of the neck at the shoulders and ends at the pointed waist. The overlay is heavily beaded with pearls and large oval and round beads in a daisy pattern. The high, stiff collar is also heavily beaded with pearls. The bodice closes with hooks and thread loops. The original boning is present, as is the original underarm shields.

The back of the bodice is pointed at the waistline and is as dramatic as the front. A multi-looped ribbon bow sits below the center of the neckline. Two shaped satin overlays begin below the bow and extend to the shoulders where they meet the ends of the beaded V overlay on the front. Each of the overlays on the back is heavily beaded with pearls along the edges and finished with a deep ruffle of the same lace used on the sleeves.

The gored skirt is flat in the front with a tightly-gathered section in the back; the waistband closes with hooks-and-eyes. The skirt is lined in ivory glazed cotton. The lower half of the skirt and the train is also stiffened with heavily starched canvas to help maintain the shape. A wide gold velvet ribbon serves as a facing inside the hem of the skirt. A velvet ribbon loop is sewn inside the lower portion of the train to help carry and move it.

Bodice Measurements: Bust = 35”; Waist = 22”. Skirt measurements: Waist = 20"; Length in front = 40"; Length to end of train = 78”.

Condition: Fair – Good. Most of the beading is intact. There is an ink stain on the left sleeve; and a similar stain on the lining on the wrong side of the train that bas bled through to the right side. The silk lining on some sections of the bodice is beginning to shatter.   [cs][ph:L]

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