Child’s Regency Dress at Vintage Textile: A Superb Vintage Clothing Site

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Child’s Regency Dress at Vintage Textile: A Superb Vintage Clothing Site

October 15, 2011 by Vic

Child's hand-embroidered dress, c 1810. Image @Vintage Textile

I love visiting Vintage Textile, one of the best, most descriptive vintage fashion sites on the Internet. The Regency era fashions are superb. Take this embroidered child’s dress, which was once white. It was made for a child around one or two years of age. The dress, which came from a New England estate, is long, like a christening dress, which suggests that the child would have been carried in it. The fabric is made of a lightweight cotton broadcloth, and the Persian-style Tree of Life embroidery design is made with wool floss. For more images and information about the dress or to purchase it, click here.

Detail of sleeve with Van Dyke points and embroidery. Images@Vintage Textile

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Posted in 19th Century England, Jane Austen's World, Regency Life, Regency style, Regency World | Tagged Child's regency dress, Vintage Textile | 13 Comments

13 Responses

on October 15, 2011 at 11:04 Barbara

This dress is superb! The detail….if only clothes of today were made with such care and love. Its like poetry.
on October 15, 2011 at 11:11 maren

i absolutely agree with Barbara, it is so beautiful!
on October 15, 2011 at 11:53 edith

absolument superbe
les tons crème sont très tendre
Edith
on October 15, 2011 at 13:59 Grace Elliot

Can you imagine what it would feel like to wear such a dress as a child? It must be like being a princess!
Grace x
on October 15, 2011 at 15:04 janice

i love the excellent embroidery. i picture a mother sewing the design on it in preparation of her child being born, as i had made outfits for my children. it was to be used for several infants. it looks like it was seldom used. i also picture the wet stain on the back, since i don’t know how they would have kept the diapers from leaking through. thank you for finding this. less is more.
on October 15, 2011 at 15:44 Mary Robinette Kowal

Beautiful! Thanks for pointing out Vintage Textile. What an amazing site.
on October 15, 2011 at 16:02 haliegirl

Absolutely gorgeous!
on October 15, 2011 at 16:40 Heather Molinari

So beautiful.
on October 16, 2011 at 05:01 Suzi Love (@suzilove)

Beautiful dress and such exquisite embroidery.
Thanks for sharing it with us.
suzi
on October 16, 2011 at 17:56 gio

That’s gorgeous! The embroidery is really beautiful!
on October 16, 2011 at 21:48 Lori

What a beautifully crafted garment!
on October 17, 2011 at 08:21 Rachel

Absolutely beautiful. I love the embroidery work on the garment!
on November 23, 2011 at 08:25 millyta1

El color maravilloso y esta exquisitamente adornado

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