Description: This is gorgeous gown in ivory dating to c.1903. The gown has a stand collar and yoke in ivory, hand made lace. Rows of ivory silk satin circle the neckline and cut across the chest yoke. The bodice is made of ivory silk chiffon and falls flat from the shoulders to pleats at the waist which opens fullness to the stomach and chest. Large ivory netting falls over the chiffon to below the chest where it disappears beneath large embroidered and tatted medallions. Edging the back, square cut yoke is a border of crisscross ivory silk lacings through tatted loops. The trimmings extend over the shoulders to below the bust with ivory silk tassels hanging from each of the three lacings. Large, gigot type sleeves fall in gathers from the armcyes in gathers to the wide net and tatted cuffs. The same crisscross trimming extends off the shoulders down the outer sleeve and across the top of the cuffs. Wide, pleated, ivory silk cummerbund is attached to the bodice waistline with double loops at the center back. Hook and eye closures fasten down the back of both the lining and the outer shell. The lining is just as gorgeous with each seam scalloped bound by hand. 11 Stays and padded bust pads. The skirt falls in slight gathers across the front from the narrow silk waistband and tighter gathers across the back. Large tatted and embroidered rose medallions are appliquéd across the skirt. Two deep slits are on either side of the center front and edged in ivory silk satin with triangles on the top. The silk extends to the lower skirt with a wide border of silk along the hemline. Around the slits and hem border is a row of the large ivory netting and than a narrower band of ivory silk. Within each slit are box pleats of the same chiffon as the skirt. There is an underskirt of ivory silk crystal georgette with wide accordion pleating along the lower skirt. Petticoat of ivory china silk with an accordion pleated ruffle along the bottom. Label: Maschcountz Bros., 402 5th Avenue, New York Condition: The ivory chiffon lining under the collar and yoke has deteriorated. There is one, smaller than a pea, hole in the right sleeve at the inner arm. The skirt has one pea size stain that has become a hole on the center front with three pin size ones as well. Some scattered pin holes on the center back seam that hides in the volume of the back skirt. Several very faint yellowish stains on the lower back skirt. A couple small tears at the waistline from not being careful with the hook and eyes. The silk petticoat is beginning to badly shatter. Size: Bust-38, waist-24 Item number: #E2556 Price: $985.00  Ordering Information Back to the previous page Back to the homepage