The original floral chine skirt and peach velvet bodice were probably made around 1895 by the House of Doucet of Paris
It took him about a month to clean, cure and preserve the "garment." While he would not reveal the method in which he used to preserve the dress, the museum has said that it was treated with a cocktail of bleach, formaldehyde and detergent to remove bacteria
(To be fair, I also was very sleep deprived.) I was just so excited that six months in I could (sort of) fit into a pre-baby dress, that I squeezed myself into a one-piece dress with a high neck, and literally zero stretch
My colleague and Who What Wear UK's associate social media editor, Alyss Bowen, has purchased this pretty style ahead of a holiday to China, where she has plans to wear it with a bucket hat and flats, in a similar vein to influencer Anna Cornelia, below