help dating this sheer slip? Nightgown?

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I'm struggling to place this one - It's a odd length and most likely a nightgown instead of a slip? Maybe it's missing a matching robe? The bottom consists of two layers of sheer material with a satin type trim. I kept this one forever intending to do a cyanotype with it... but never got around to it.

Thoughts? Thanks! :)
 

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whatever it is, I love the lace.

It looks sort of cottony or linen musliny on my screen...what is the fabric?
 
Thanks :) The top is nylon and silky and the bottom is like a tulle type material but not as rough to the touch. It doesn't look like anything was cut out, so I'm thinking it was meant to be sheer. It would seem weird to me not to have a matching robe because it's so sheer. And it doesn't quite seem to fit as a slip, sort of long? And too blousy at the bottom? Hmm.
 
I've been looking at this again and again and my guess is it's a slip. The length looks ok for me, that would depend on the age too, which I find hard to pinpoint. You say the skirt portion of the slip is a tulle type material - is it slightly stiff? It looks that way in the photo, so I imagine it was meant to give a skirt/dress a bit of volume, a little bit like a crinoline. Is the black portion at the bottom also stiff, or silky?
 
Midge said:
I've been looking at this again and again and my guess is it's a slip. The length looks ok for me, that would depend on the age too, which I find hard to pinpoint. You say the skirt portion of the slip is a tulle type material - is it slightly stiff? It looks that way in the photo, so I imagine it was meant to give a skirt/dress a bit of volume, a little bit like a crinoline. Is the black portion at the bottom also stiff, or silky?
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The "tulle" part is actually quite soft, too. And the satin as well. I guess it just seems like it would be awkward as a slip because it isn't very body slimming after the waist? But perhaps with a fuller skirt dress that would work. Hmmm... :)
 
I keep wondering about more traditional or dance costumes.....designed so that the bottom is visible and part of the top, or that when you dance or move in certain ways the black shows?
 
A slip isn't really designed to shape the body under the garment, it's to add cover if a dress is not totally opaque and provide a surface between the wearer and the garment so that it does not stick to them, or get static. For these purposes it does not matter if the slip itself is not opaque.
 
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