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A 'bedgown' (sometimes 'bedjacket' or 'shortgown') is an article of women's clothing for the upper body, usually thigh-length and wrapping or tying in front.
Bedgowns of lightweight printed cotton fabric were fashionable at-home morning wear in the 18th century. Over time, bedgowns (also called in this context 'shortgowns') became the staple upper garment of British and American female working-class street wear from the 18th to early 19th centuries, worn over petticoats and often topped with an apron. Made of sturdy cotton, linen, wool or linsey-woolsey, these bedgowns were simply cut to a T-shaped pattern, and were worn overlapped in front or with the front skirts cutaway.
In the Welsh spelling ''betgwn'', the bedgown is part of Welsh national dress.
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Bedgowns lingered as fashion garments into the mid-20th century, usually under the newer name ''bedjackets'', in the form of short robes or wrappers worn over a nightgown or negligee for warmth and modesty while sitting up in bed for breakfast, reading, or similar pursuits They had mostly fallen out of fashion by the 1960s.
Jane Ashelford: ''The Art of Dress: Clothes and Society 1500-1914'', Abrams, 1996. (ISBN 0-8109-6317-5)
★ Making an 18th century bedgown
★ Clothes for Work at the Manchester Galleries
Woman of Wensleydale wearing a bedgown and petticoat, 1814
Bedgowns of lightweight printed cotton fabric were fashionable at-home morning wear in the 18th century. Over time, bedgowns (also called in this context 'shortgowns') became the staple upper garment of British and American female working-class street wear from the 18th to early 19th centuries, worn over petticoats and often topped with an apron. Made of sturdy cotton, linen, wool or linsey-woolsey, these bedgowns were simply cut to a T-shaped pattern, and were worn overlapped in front or with the front skirts cutaway.
In the Welsh spelling ''betgwn'', the bedgown is part of Welsh national dress.
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Bedgowns lingered as fashion garments into the mid-20th century, usually under the newer name ''bedjackets'', in the form of short robes or wrappers worn over a nightgown or negligee for warmth and modesty while sitting up in bed for breakfast, reading, or similar pursuits They had mostly fallen out of fashion by the 1960s.
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References
Jane Ashelford: ''The Art of Dress: Clothes and Society 1500-1914'', Abrams, 1996. (ISBN 0-8109-6317-5)
External links
★ Making an 18th century bedgown
★ Clothes for Work at the Manchester Galleries
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