Child's dress of white gauze patterned with silver-gilt tinsel, trimmed with tinsel flowers and fringes, made in the United Kingdom, ca. 1850-60. Child's dress of white gauze patterned with narrow bands of silver gilt tinsel on a foundation of white satee

Child's dress of white gauze patterned with silver-gilt tinsel, trimmed with tinsel flowers and fringes, made in the United Kingdom, ca. 1850-60. Child's dress of white gauze patterned with narrow bands of silver gilt tinsel on a foundation of white sateen lined with plain white gauze and cotton twill. It has a round lace-edged neck and short lace-edged sleeves, with the armholes, neck and sleeves trimmed with rows of tinsel fringe. The bodice is decorated at the front with loops of tinsel shaped as simple flowers, and has a slight plastron effect at the front, terminating in a double row of tinsel fringe. The flared skirt falls from a self waistband, and is tiered with three flounces of tinselled gauze, each finished with a row of tinsel fringe at the hem. The garment fastens at the back of the bodice with a row of pearlised buttons and stitched buttonholes.  White and silver-gilt gauze, over sateen; tinsel trimming.