• Guipure Lace & Silk Boudoir Cap, c.1920s, Great Britain. The Underpinnings Museum. Photography by Tigz Rice

    Guipure Lace & Silk Boudoir Cap

    Guipure Lace & Silk Boudoir Cap Date: c. 1920s Origin: Great Britain Fabric: Silk & guipure lace Brand: Custom made   This boudoir case has a crown of pale pink silk crêpe, edged with a textural, heavy chemical guipure lace. The boudoir cap is a type of lingerie headwear, most commonly worn during the nineteenth to…
    October 10, 2018
  • Cream Machine Lace Boudoir Cap With Silk Ribbonwork & Wired Ear Covers, c. 1920s, Great Britain. The Underpinnings Museum. Photography by Tigz Rice

    Cream Machine Lace Boudoir Cap With Silk Ribbonwork & Wired Ear Covers

    Cream Machine Lace Boudoir Cap With Silk Ribbonwork & Wired Ear Covers Date: c. 1920s Origin: Great Britain Fabric: Lace & Silk Ribbon Brand: Unknown   A boudoir cap in a base of allover ecru leavers lace with narrow trim, embellished with profuse silk ribbonwork in structures of rosettes and ribbon streamers. The ear covers…
    October 10, 2018
  • Silk Crepe & Insertion Lace Boudoir Cap With Silk Ribbonwork & Pin Tucks, c.1920s, UK. The Underpinnings Museum. Photography by Tigz Rice

    Silk Crêpe & Insertion Lace Boudoir Cap With Silk Ribbonwork & Pin Tucks

    Silk Crepe & Insertion Lace Boudoir Cap With Silk Ribbonwork & Pin Tucks Date: c.1930s Origin: Great Britain Fabric: Silk crêpe, insertion lace and silk ribbon Brand: Custom made   A boudoir cap with a pink silk crêpe base with rows of ecru and blue insertion leavers lace, embellished with silk rosette ribbon. The crown of…
    November 5, 2017
  • Silk Habotai & Lace Boudoir Cap With Silk Rosettes, c.1920s, UK. The Underpinnings Museum. Photography by Tigz Rice

    Silk Habotai & Lace Boudoir Cap With Silk Rosettes

    Silk Habotai & Lace Boudoir Cap With Silk Rosettes Date:c.1920s Origin: Great Britain Fabric: Silk habotai and lace Brand: Custom made A boudoir cap made of an ecru leavers lace with panels of pale pink silk habotai. It is embellished with silk rosettes at the back and sides of the head. This variety of leavers lace would…
    November 5, 2017
  • Cotton Leavers Lace Ruffle & Tulle Boudoir Cap With Silk Ribbonwork, c.1920s, UK. The Underpinnings Museum. Photography by Tigz Rice

    Cotton Leavers Lace Ruffle & Tulle Boudoir Cap With Silk Ribbonwork

    Cotton Leavers Lace Ruffle & Tulle Boudoir Cap With Silk Ribbonwork Date: c.1920s Origin: Great Britain Fabric: Tulle Brand: Custom made   This boudoir cap has a base of white cotton bobbinet tulle which has been elaborately decorated with ruffles of leavers lace trim and silk ribbon. The crown of the cap is made of a…
    November 5, 2017
  • Cotton Leavers Lace & Silk Bow Boudoir Cap, c.1920s, UK. The Underpinnings Museum. Photography by Tigz Rice

    Cotton Leavers Lace & Silk Bow Boudoir Cap

    Cotton Leavers Lace & Silk Bow Boudoir Cap Date: c.1920s Origin: Great Britain Fabric: Cotton leavers lace Brand: Custom made This boudoir cap has been constructed from narrow strips of cotton leavers laces, which have been carefully machine stitched together and overlapped to curve around the head. It is embellished with a single pink silk bow.…
    November 5, 2017
  • Shirred Black Silk & Ecru Lace Boudoir Cap, c.1920s, UK. The Underpinnings Museum. Photography by Tigz Rice

    Shirred Black Silk & Ecru Lace Boudoir Cap

    Shirred Black Silk & Ecru Lace Boudoir Cap Date: c.1920s Origin: Great Britain Fabric: Silk and lace Brand: Custom made   Black silk satin is shirred at the crown of this cap, trimmed with machine made laces and handmade silk roses with silk floss embroidered foliage. The boudoir cap was originally a type of lingerie headwear,…
    November 5, 2017
  • Lace & Silk Ribbonwork Boudoir Cap With Eau-De-Nil Bow, c. 1920s, UK. The Underpinnings Museum. Photography by Tigz Rice

    Lace & Silk Ribbonwork Boudoir Cap With Eau-De-Nil Bow

    Lace Ruffle & Floral Rosette Boudoir Cap Date:c. 1920s Origin: Great Britain Fabric: Lace & silk ribbon Brand: Custom made   This boudoir cap is made from a base of machine embroidered lace and trimmed with a narrow leavers lace. It is embellished with profuse ribbonwork. Pale blue silk ribbon encircles the cap in a delicate…
    November 5, 2017
  • Rayon Satin & Silk Ribbonwork Boudoir Cap, c. 1920s, UK. The Underpinnings Museum. Photography by Tigz Rice

    Rayon Satin & Silk Ribbonwork Boudoir Cap

    Rayon Satin & Silk Ribbonwork Boudoir Cap Date: c.1920s Origin: Great Britain Fabric: Rayon satin, Schiffli embroidered tulle, lace trim, silk ribbon Brand: Custom made This boudoir cap has a base of pale pink rayon satin, with machine embroidered cotton tulle at the crown and encircling the head. The base of the cap has a panel…
    November 5, 2017
  • Silk & Schiffli Embroidery Boudoir Cap With Ribbon Lattice, c. 1920s, UK. The Underpinnings Musuem. Photography by Tigz Rice

    Silk & Schiffli Embroidery Boudoir Cap With Ribbon Lattice

    Silk & Schiffli Embroidery Boudoir Cap With Ribbon Lattice Date: c.1920s Origin: Great Britain Fabric: Silk crêpe, Schiffli embroidered tulle Brand: Custom made   This boudoir cap has a crown of gathered silk crêpe, seamed to a cotton bobbinet tulle with a Schiffli embroidered trim appliquéd over. The scalloped edge of the tulle has been seamed…
    November 5, 2017
  • Filet lace boudoir cap, c. 1910s, GB. The Underpinnings Museum. Photo by Tigz Rice

    Filet Lace Boudoir Cap With Silk Bow

    Filet Lace Boudoir Cap With Silk Bow Date: c.1910s Origin: Great Britain Fabric: Filet lace and silk ribbon Brand: Custom made   The body of this boudoir cap is made entirely of filet lace, with a seamed crown and scalloped edge lace trim. A pale pink silk ribbon trims the back of the cap. The boudoir…
    November 5, 2017
  • Tulle & silk boudoir cap with oversized flowers, c. 1920s, USA. The Underpinnings Museum. Photo by Tigz Rice

    Tulle & silk boudoir cap with oversized flowers

    Tulle & silk boudoir cap with oversized flowers Date: c. 1920s Origin: United States Fabric: Tulle and silk satin Brand: Custom made   This boudoir cap is created from a crown of pink silk satin, edged with embroidered tulle and a narrow leavers lace scalloped trim. On one side of the cap, three elaborate rosettes…
    November 5, 2017