{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O127145"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O127145/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AX7496/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AX7496/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2006AX7496","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false},{"assetRef":"2021MU8949","copyright":"©Victoria & Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O127145/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O127145","accessionNumber":"T.28-1969","objectType":"Bed jacket","titles":[],"summaryDescription":"This finely pleated and expertly ironed sleeve belongs to a lady’s dressing jacket. Such a garment was particularly necessary when dressing the hair in order to keep the hair powder from contact with clothing. The jacket reaches to the hips and has three-quarter length sleeves, with fine cambric cuffs. A ruffle runs down each edge of the front of the jacket. \r\n\r\nTo set the fine pleating of the sleeve it had to be held taut at both ends while ironing. Once the length-wise pleats were set, the sleeve was folded cross-wise and ironed again. Eighteenth-century laundresses required great skill to execute this kind of finishing, heating their irons on a stove to the temperature just hot enough to smooth, but not scorch, the linen.","physicalDescription":"Woman's bed or dressing jacket of fine, bleached linen. It is hip-length, unfitted, with a round neck and opening at the centre front. It has long sleeves to the wrist, gathered and pleated with starch and set with ironing. There is an edging of 2-inch (5 cm) wide gathered muslin around the neck, and down the front. Around the cuffs is ¾-inch (1.8 cm) wide gathered muslin edging.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"linen (material)","id":"AAT14069"},{"text":"linen thread","id":"x35336"}],"techniques":[{"text":"hand weaving","id":"AAT53643"},{"text":"hand sewing","id":"AAT257459"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Linen, hand-woven and hand-sewn","categories":[{"text":"Womenswear","id":"THES49044"},{"text":"Textiles","id":"THES48885"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2006AX7496","2021MU8949"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"010","id":"THES310408"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Bed jacket","id":""}],[{"text":"Dressing jacket","id":"AAT209949"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1740-1780","earliest":"1740-01-01","latest":"1780-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Length","value":"63.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"approx","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"116.0","unit":"cm","qualifier":"approx","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"overall","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Woman's bed or dressing jacket of linen, Great Britain, 1740-80; pleated sleeves","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Avril Hart and Susan North, Historical Fashion in Detail: the 17th and 18th centuries, London: V&A Publications, 1998.","id":"AUTH406477"},"details":"p.52","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["T.28-1969"],"accessionNumberNum":"28","accessionNumberPrefix":"T","accessionYear":1969,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2006-08-15","availableToBook":true}}