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The motifs here are built up in padded satin stitch, the thread laid down first as a foundation and then covered with a second, denser layer so each shape stands slightly proud of the cloth and catches its own small shadow. On christening gowns and best frocks of the 1950s this level of handwork was still an expectation rather than a luxury, worked at home by women, often by lamplight, often for a child they loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTwo further hand techniques share the dress. Pin tucks run in narrow parallel folds from the yoke, each one creased, stitched and pressed by hand, a method used both to shape a garment without darts and to leave cloth that could be let out as a child grew. The hem and cuffs are finished with a hand-rolled picot edge, the raw edge rolled to a fine cord between the fingers and whipped closed, a finish that survives decades of washing precisely because there is no machine seam in it to fail. 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The technique was revived with great enthusiasm through the 1960s and 1970s, and the women who produced pieces like this were working in a tradition that was already centuries old. The collar and cuffs are finished with a fine picot edge; the back closes with a sash that ties into a bow. Every detail is accounted for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the kind of dress that was made to be photographed, and it still is. 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