Bathing dress trousers for a doll
- Accession Loan No.
- 84/2010/2
- Simple Name
- bathing dress
- Full Name
- doll’s bathing dress trousers
- Common Name
- bathing dress trousers for a doll
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Material
- wool; metal
- Period Classification
- Victorian (1837-1901)
- Collection Class
- Toys dolls and games
- Production Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Production Continent
- Europe
- Production Year Low
- 1880
- Production Year High
- 1900
- Family Group
- Dimensions
- whole length 245 mm; whole width 340 mm
- Created At
- 2016-10-13 15:45:59
- Updated At
- 2020-01-28 11:44:59
There are 6 comments
We have toys like this. Girls play together [and pretend that one is the doll’s mother].
All sorts. Maybe a [one-piece swimsuit], maybe pyjamas…. Some women don’t like to swim with men, just with women, so they might go to a different beach.
What would they wear?
Yes.
In Saudi Arabia, do women swim in the sea?
This is a doll’s outfit. It is a bathing costume. [Until the early 1900s it wasn’t considered the right thing for a lady to do to actually swim. Costumes like this would be worn into the sea just for dipping or paddling.] …Normally the jacket was long, like a dress, and you would wear shoes like espadrilles with lacing up the legs, and a hat or cap.