Bourne Archive:
People: Worth ©2008 R.J.PENHEY
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27 Jul 2009
The Bourne Archive
Bourne People: Charles Frederick
Worth.
Museum Inventory
Bourne Civic Society
has mounted a permanent exhibition concerned with the work of Charles Worth, in
its heritage centre in Baldock’s Mill,
Dresses
of Empress Maria Fyodorovna (This is a list of French
clothing but most is by Worth.)
Visiting
dress of Empress Maria Fyodorovna
The
1976.258.1a,b
Evening dress, 1898–1900.
House of Worth Silk. Gift of Eva Drexel Dahlgren in 1976. Fuller details.
(French,
1858–1956)
(1976.258.1a,b)
National Museums
Garments in
store at the Decorative Arts Department of The Walker Art Gallery, a division
of National Museums Liverpool. Each description is preceded by the relevant accession
number.
Two dresses worn by
the Duchess of Roxburghe, formerly the American heiress Miss May Goelet. They
were donated to the museum’s costume collection in 1960 by a later Duchess of
Roxburghe, the wife of May Goelet's grandson.
60.177.1 Dinner gown of salmon pink velvet, a
separate bodice and skirt, the bodice dress-band labelled Worth,
60.177.2 Dinner gown of turquoise green satin,
silk chiffon and net, a separate bodice and skirt, no label but believed to be
by Worth, about 1893-95.
Three dresses worn
by Madame Marees van Swinderen, wife of Jonkheer R de Marees van Swinderen,
Foreign Minister at The Hague, 1908-13 and
1961.246.7 Princess-line evening dress of pink silk
satin, the dress-band labelled Worth, about 1908-10.
1961.246.8 Evening dress of sapphire blue silk velvet
and silk georgette, a separate bodice and skirt, the dress-band labelled Worth,
about 1911-13.
1961.246.11 Evening coat of midnight blue velvet, the
original sable collar and cuffs now removed, labelled Worth, about 1905-08.
The photograph is of dress 60.177.2 . It was taken for the publicity of the 1984
exhibition; High Society, Formal Dress
for Fashionable People, 1875-1920. (Photo:
National Museums Liverpool,
The