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The stomacher formed part of the ensemble of fashionable women’s dress from the 1680s to the 1780s.  This example is embroidered in coloured silks in a pattern of leaves and flowers.  The diagonal lacing is decorative only, as pin holes in the tabs on either side of the stomacher indicate how it was fastened to the gown.","physicalDescription":"Woman's stomacher of blue silk taffeta, embroidered in coloured silk twist and couched with silver filé  in a floral pattern. It is triangular in shape, with 2 narrow short skirts on each side. It has decorative lacing across the front and 3 tabs of silk on each side for attaching to a gown. 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The collection had been formed by the artist Talbot Hughes, who wrote a book on the history of dress, illustrated with photographs of models wearing items from his collection. A large firm in America had offered to buy the collection and present it to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, but Hughes did not want it to go abroad. At the suggestion of Cecil Harcourt Smith of the V&A, Harrods bought it for £2,500 and gave it to the Museum for the 'public good'. 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