Name/Title
White Cotton Afternoon Tea DressDescription
White cotton afternoon tea dress with open machine embroidered decoration. Front V neckline and scoop back neckline. Eyelet cummerbund off center front button close and large ruffle hem. Bodice top has large scalloped edge with open lace 3-1/2" in width with floral design which goes from waistband over shoulder to dropped back shoulder line. Additional 2 collars of fine lace with saw toothed edge in a shallow shawl pattern which begins 8-1/2" from waist. 3" in width at center back is an overlay of lace. Second collar is an underlay of sheer cotton with lace edging 1-1/4" in horizontal rows; design of collar is a sailor pattern (13" in length and 17-1/2" in width across back). Applied machine embroidered leaf pattern with enclosed daisy and is appliquéd on collar. 2-5/8" wide cummerbund is machine stitched on at shoulder there are 6 minute tucks that are 7" in length on bodice front and continued on to bodice back in a planted position on bodice back 12" in length from shoulder to cummerbund. Repeats on other bodice half. The embroidered machine lace at left center front has an extension of 5-1/2" to close the V at bust-line. This extension closure is a pearl button with looped string at bottom edge of cummerbund. Length of dress down center front from end of V neckline is 41" including ruffle at bottom. Ruffle at bottom is 15" in depth. There is a lace insertion at top of ruffle which is 2-7/8" wide. The circumference of ruffle at bottom is 94". Length down center back is 51-1/2" - machine embroidered band 3" width repeats same as cummerbund 18-12" below lower edge of cummerbund is machine stitched eyelet border and eyelet band - ruffle is applied to this embroidered band. Set in sleeve is 11-1/2" long at under arm sleeve - V gusset 1-5/8" wide at underarm seam. The edge of sleeve is same machine embroidered lace is bodice front and hem. Two slight smudges on front left side of skirt just above the eyelet lace band. Also brown spot at same location. There are three skirt seams - 2 side seams and a center back. Off center on left side is front opening placket 13" long. There are 3 pearl buttons with loops on the cummerbund and six 1/8" self covered white cloth buttons. There are also string loops from button close.