This week most of my auction purchases seem to be all about baby clothes - Christening dresses, night dresses and aprons (for keeping the clothes underneath clean!). One dress in particular has the most beautiful very fine Ayrshire whitework embroidery. Here's a close up................
And another showing the skirt panel.........................
In reality, it seems that few people do buy them to use as a Christening dress and to pass down the family. Mostly now they are bought by doll collectors to dress up their favourite doll and to display. At least that way the exquisite workmanship is shown off and not put away in a drawer.
The other baby clothing item that was in my purchases is several baby and toddler size aprons ........
And I couldn't resist showing these two baby's in all their finery - just look at their faces!
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Those are quite beautiful, well done for getting a decent photo of the christening gowns. I have terrible trouble with taking pix of white clothing even when my camera is behaving! Lizzie
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