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Dress / selection of Victorian dresses

This black cotton and velvet day dress is trimmed with black satin. It has a bustle swag at the back and fastens down the front with thirteen buttons.

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Roll over this photo to switch between the dress and an illustration of a girl sitting down in a dress with a bustle, taken from the 1890 Young Ladies Journal, a women's magazine of 'fashion, fancy work and family reading'.


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