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The high-waisted style with short sleeves imitated the forms of Greek and Roman dress seen in surviving sculpture. The white muslin fabrics used for these gowns were either imported from India or, in the case of this example, made in Europe to imitate Indian materials. A design of acorns and vine tendrils has been worked in down the front and around the hem of the gown. A scarf of knitted silk has been printed in a pattern similar to those of the popular Indian cashmere shawls.","physicalDescription":"Evening dress of white muslin, embroidered all over in white cotton. The embroidery is worked in a pattern of French knots, with the collars, skirt border, and centre stripe embroidered in chain stitch. The design links vine tendrils and acorns. The dress has a low square neck adjusted with a draw-cord, and 'stomacher' front closing over inner lining flaps. The waist is high and the skirt cut straight and gathered at the centre of the back, fastening with a tape tie. It extends into a long oval train. The sleeves are short and have a 'vandyke' trimming.\r\n","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"muslin","id":"AAT14087"},{"text":"cotton","id":"AAT14067"},{"text":"linen (material)","id":"AAT14069"}],"techniques":[{"text":"embroidery","id":"x40351"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Cotton muslin, embroidered with white cotton, lined with linen, hand-sewn","categories":[{"text":"Clothing","id":"THES48975"},{"text":"Fashion","id":"THES48957"},{"text":"Womenswear","id":"THES49044"},{"text":"Europeana Fashion Project","id":"THES265804"}],"styles":[{"text":"neo-classical","id":"x38958"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&F","id":"THES48601"},"images":["2006BG1262","2006AP4076"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES307282"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Dress","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"France","id":"x28849"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":"possibly"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1805-1810","earliest":"1805-01-01","latest":"1810-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Miss M. 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Hudson, Lancaster Gate, London (RP 1913/3077M). On entry to the Museum it was noted that it had been 'slightly repaired'.\r\n\r\nBetween 1962 and 1979, this dress was displayed in the V&A's old costume court. It was also loaned to the British Council Exhibition of Portraits which travelled to Romania and Hungary in 1972-73 (RPs 72/882A). It was exhibited in 1975-76 in an exhibition at the British Library celebrating the bicentenary of Jane Austen (RPs 75/2216).\r\n","historicalContext":"White muslin, Classical in effect, was fashionable from the 1790s to about 1810. Dresses of similar shape to this with a stripe down the centre-front were in use from about 1806, when an example was illustrated in the <i>Lady's Monthly Museum</i>, February 1806, to 1809, the 'pocket book' plate<i> Fashionable Dress of the Year 1809</i>. The oak leaf had classical connotations but, as one of Napoleon's devices, became even more popular after his coronation in 1804.\r\n","briefDescription":"White cotton dress, 1805-1810, French, embroidered with oak leaf and acorn motifs","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Rothstein, Natalie. <u>Four Hundred Years of Fashion</u>. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984. 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