Dress
Date made: late 19th century
Description: Brown cotton dress trimmed with brown satin. High round neck, long tight sleeves, cuff of rushed satin. Fastens down the front of a long tight, boned bodice with rush rusted panel. Long straight skirt, very elaborately trimmed and frilled and with a slight bustle.
Belonged to the donor's grandmother, Mrs Corlett of Croit Molly Rob, Sulby Glen, formally of Curragh Farm, Sulby, born c.1865.
(Reference image taken in the 1990s.)
Materials: cotton, satin
Object name: dress
Collection: Costume & Textiles Collection
ID Number: 1963-0054