1810's Dress

The skirt fabric along with one of the very few stains on the fabric.

This shows one of the tears on the shoulder. Almost all the tears look to be easily repairable.

A close up of the bodice.

The outer waistband hides the seam of the bodice and skirt. It's stiff and most likely lined with the same linen as the bodice. You can see the attachment stitches on the inside of the bodice.

The full dress. It's made of cotton with a linen lining. The material is semi-sheer and has a purple design on it.

This shot shows that the hooks had been moved. Based on some other elements of the dress, I think it might have really been made sometime in the 1810's but let out and changed slightly as the girl grew.

Another shot of inside the bodice. I wanted to get a good shot of the basting stitches and the stitches that hold the outer waistband to the dress.

Inside the dress. The skirt fabric is left unsewn along the edge. The top of the fabric is folded over about 4 or so inches and then gathered to the bodice edge.

A full length view of the late regency styled dress. The bodice has colored with age and has a few problem spots around the shoulders. However, overall, the dress is doing pretty good for being almost 200 years old!