Is this dress a marriage?

carla rey

carla rey

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Hi all!

I have this dress that's making me second guess myself, I keep going back and forth. It feels to me like a marriage of an Edwardian crochet camisole top married with a 60s-70s cheesecloth gauze dress on the bottom. No labels of any kind, a mixture of machine sewn straight seams and flat felled seams.

Or could it be an Edwardian nightdress? Most I've seen with this top aren't this full across the hip (126 inches at the hip). Very nicely sewn together at the top, nothing remarkable to point to a slap dash job.

Thank you!
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Carla,

I agree the pattern is adorable! That type of sheer gauze type material, almost like a cheesecloth, was not generally used for Western garments in the Edwardian era. Not even underclothing or might wear. So yes, I suspect this is either a marriage, or even a contemporary garment. If the top is antique, perhaps your dress is one of those made in the 1970s or later decade when matching these antique crochet yokes was a popular thing to do. I still find these antique yokes and have a number of them still in my stash, and I think this is what yours may be.

Can you show a close up of the way the crochet is made, and also a close up of the armholes?
 
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