Details

Object type

dress; Going Away dress

Artist/Maker

Hayward maker

Place Associated

England, London, 64 New Bond Street (place of manufacture)

Date

1899; 29 March 1899 (date of use)

Materials

wool, silk

Dimensions

bust: 860 mm; footprint: 900 mm x 1000 mm; waist: 660 mm

Description

Woman’s dress or Going-Away dress, consisting of bodice (E.1988.104.2.a) and matching skirt (E.1988.104.2.b), in fine blue wool broadcloth decorated with a scrolling border design in applied slightly purple-blue solid cut pile silk velvet, navy ribbed silk, wide and narrow navy silk braids. Bodice with high standing collar, fitted bodice fastening centre front with alternatively overlapping tabs with wool and braid covered buttons. Full-length sleeves with very slight gathering into shoulders, cut with curved elbows, scalloped cuffs. Collar, bodice, upper sleeves and cuffs decorated with appliquéd scrolling design incorporating flower heads. Lined with cream silk satin with woven cream silk label inside centre back ‘[Crest] Mesdes Hayward / Court Dressmakers / 64 New Bond Str. / LONDON W.’ Skirt, full-length, gored-panel skirt with additional darts at hips and flaring out below the knee. Fastening centre front waist with alternatively overlapping tabs with wool and braid covered buttons that continue down to hem. Centre-front and hem decorated with appliquéd pattern edged with braid. Lined in blue silk.

Worn as a Going Away outfit by Elizabeth Kerr Holms-Kerr at her marriage to John Deans Hope on 29 March 1899 at Park Church, Glasgow. The Statutory Register of Marriages states '1889 on the Twenty-ninth day of March at Park Church, Glasgow, After Banns according to the Church of Scotland John D. Hope, Stockbroker (Bachelor), 38, Inchmartin, Inchture [and] E. K. Holms-Kerr (Spinster) 26, 27 Park Circus, Glasgow'.

This outfit was the inspiration for the walking dress made by staff at North Glasgow College was worn by Lord Provost Liz Cameron in the Lord Provost’s Pageant in 2006.

Credit Line/Donor

Museum Purchase, 1988

ID Number

E.1988.104.2

Location

In storage

Related People

Elizabeth Kerr Holms-Kerr owner, wearer