Child's dress
Category
Costume
Date
circa 1930 - circa 1935
Materials
Silk and lace
Measurements
490 mm (length)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 658752
Summary
A pale yellow silk long-sleeved child's dress (circa 1930 to circa 1935) with lace around the sleeves. It belonged to a little girl called Catherine Mary Evans, who died in 1937 aged 7, after contracting diphtheria. Her parents had been advised to not have her vaccinated. The garment was was possibly a christening dress. It appears to be more 1920s in style and therefore considered to be old fashioned. The dress could have been made foro another garment and cut down as some of the embroidery is hidden. Inside the cuffs of both sleeves is a silk ribbon. The dress is decorated with a rectangular embroidered horizontal panel on the bodice, the inside of which has embroidered swirls. This pattern is repeated within a vertical rectangular panel down the centre of the skirt. There are holes in the skirt. The back of the dress is plain. It opens at the back and fastens with a metal press stud. At the top of the opening there is a button hole, but no means of fastening.