White and Pink Cotton Dress
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Emma Sims, London, Ontario, 1966
Object number1966.020.074
Label TextThis two-piece cotton dress is an example of more casual Victorian fashion. Day-time outfits would typically consist of skirts with hemlines just above the floor and bodices with long, tight sleeves and high collars. This dress belonged to Miss Emma Ludwig whose father operated a mill at the Blackfriars’s Bridge and also a cider and vinegar manufacturing plant at 94 King Street.
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1885 - 1895
c. 1903
1885 - 1895
c. 1910
1840s - 1880s
c. 1900