Gallery Title
Gallery Title
dress
Accession Number NWHCM : 1971.168.84
Description
Dress in yellow velvet with deep v front, back filled in with gold lace, sleeveless with minute cap sleeves of gold lace added, copiously worked in small and large beads of various colours and having large boss with ropes of pearls hanging in front from low waist, underskirt of satin with gold lace hem, fairly tight skirt with front apron panel, about 1926
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This dress of yellow velvet dates from the 1920’s and was owned by Cara Broughton, a former New York heiress who moved to London with her English husband Urban Broughton around 1909. After the death of Urban in 1929, Cara was named as the 1st Lady Fairhaven, a result of a peerage that was in the process of being bestowed upon her late husband. At this time she resided at Anglesey Abbey in Cambridgeshire, a property she jointly owned with her eldest son Huttlestone. The dress is heavily decorated with hems of gold lace which are even evident on the satin underskirt. Extensively worked beading sits above a rope of pearls which hang to the front of the garment. This dress is from the Fairhaven Collection which comprises the most glamorous examples of costume and accessories of the early 20th century.