Need help identifying this dress

I have this dress that looks like a 1940s dress with the snaps and hooks closure, there is support at the waist area ( Girdles/ corset? ). however, there is plastic support in the neck area, I have a hard time dating it, could anyone help? Also, do you know what kind of dress it is? Thank you! Oh, and there are armpit sweat pads in this dress!

 

Absolutely! I think 191o- 1912ish. The 'plastic' would be celluloid collar stays to keep the high lace collar standing up. I also see an interior waist band and boning. A good press would do wonders for this dress!

 

Wow, thats good to know, thank you!

 

Does that means the girdle/corset thing is supporting the belly not the back?

 

Oh yes- it closes at the back.
What I am seeing is the interior construction of the dress, which is not for support, but for shaping and to make it lay smoothly over a separate corset.
The order of underwear from the skin out would be along these lines:
1)camisole and bloomers ( separate or joined at waist) OR chemise
2) corset
3) corset cover and petticoat OR princess line petticoat.

 

Thank you for the info! You are amazing!

 

I am seeing this as some sort of under dress, not a dress itself.

 

It looks like it is missing a piece.
But I agree early 1912 era as stated above.

 

Hollis, what would the material be for the stays?

 

I have seen whalebone ( probably too early for this dress) , flat steel, or spiral steel