Antique c.1900 bodice or jacket with arts and crafts embroidered detail utility mark Simple cotton smock style dress

Simple cotton smock style dress in block printed greens and creams

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Antique c.1900 bodice or jacket with arts and crafts embroidered detail utility mark Simple cotton smock style dressAntique bodice jacket of Victorian origins, lined with a heavily polished cotton. Featuring close fitting front fastening which controls the front shaping. Close fitting inner lining allows for the softer outer bodice to give shape and style. Cotton lace frills to cuffs. Shaped two piece sleeve is very Victorian, as is the bodice seaming. Lots of tiny hand finishing and overseen seam edges etc. Inner lining also fastens with hooks and eyes and