Child's dress
Category
Costume
Date
circa 1920 - circa 1939
Materials
Man-made fabric
Measurements
495 mm (length)
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 658301
Summary
A child's 1920s or 1930s dress in a cream crepe fabric with smocking at the front and back. It has an opening at the back with five miscellaneous buttons. It has half-sleeves with a band of smocking round the cuffs, and leaf-pattern embroidery in a shiny thread (pink fading to cream) on the front of the bodice and all round the skirt.