bengaline
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thumb|1880s woman's paletot in black bengaline Bengaline is a rayon-and-cotton material which became fashionable for women and children to wear in the 1880s and 1890s. It offered the impression of genuine silk but was made with lesser amounts of silk than cotton. Lizzie Borden stated at her August 1892 inquest that she was wearing a dress made of bengaline silk on the morning she was accused of murdering her father and stepmother.
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It is catalogued under topics including 1880s fashion, 1890s fashion and Lizzie Borden.
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- Material used
- synthetic fiber
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- Has use
- hatmaking
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- fabrication method
- plain weave
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thumb|1880s woman's paletot in black bengaline Bengaline is a rayon-and-cotton material which became fashionable for women and children to wear in the 1880s and 1890s. It offered the impression of genuine silk but was made with lesser amounts of silk than cotton. Lizzie Borden stated at her August 1892 inquest that she was wearing a dress made of bengaline silk on the morning she was accused of murdering her father and stepmother.
The fabric went out of fashion when completely smooth-surfaced materials became popular. Piqué, coachman's whipcord, diagonal serge, and surah are similar to bengaline silk. Surah was once known in France as silk serge.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “bengaline” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.