An exhibition about fashion in a Liverpool sugar merchant's family, held at Sudley House from 9 April 2009 to Spring 2010.

Bathing costume, wool serge, 1910

Made by LY and J Nathan, Hardman Street, Liverpool

Accession numbers 1967.187.388a and 1967.187.388b

traditional bathing costume

Two-piece bathing costume of red-orange wool serge hand-embroidered with red wool and decorated with applied woollen braid.

Worn by Emily Tinne during her honeymoon in Ireland, 1910.

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