Boy's dress
Category
Costume
Date
circa 1914
Materials
Cotton, embroidery thread and cotton
Measurements
460 mm (length)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661641
Summary
A boy's cream cotton short sleeved dress. The neck, cuffs and above the hem are decorated with a very simple beige embroidery thread. It fastens at the back with five press studs. The bodice and the skirt are stained.
Provenance
Donated to the Museum of Childhood by Mrs J Haines in 1993. The clothes had belonged to Leo Rowlands (1914 -1938) and Malcolm Rowlands (1922 -1942) and were made by a seamstress who visited the Rowlands' house two days each week to make clothes for the family.