Details
A bodice and unpicked skirt of pink and ivory striped silk, the ivory stripes pierced to resemble lace, the integral stomacher fronts/"zone" with four vandyked tabs, from an open robe, circa 1785
Literature
Cf T313.1920, Victoria and Albert Museum; T32.1928, ibid; T314.1920, ibid, and lot 150, Christie's sale of Fine Costume Needlework and Textiles, 27 June 1995, for similar examples of pierced work being used to simulate lace.