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1860s dress

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1860s dress

A woman's dress from the late 1860s.

This dress belonged originally to a member of the Reid family of Wester Kittochside and was donated to Glasgow Museums in the 1990s by one of her descendants. The dress is of a blue corded silk and has a boned bodice lined with white cotton. The skirt panels are mounted on stiffened gauze.

Reference: E.1992.6.5.a-c

Reproduced with the permission of Glasgow City Council, Glasgow Museums

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dresses, fashions, mannequins, women



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