Boy's dress
Category
Costume
Date
circa 1914
Materials
Net, lace, metal and mother-of-pearl
Measurements
425 mm (length)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661642
Summary
A boy's white net short sleeved dress which is trimmed with lace at the neck, cuffs, bodice, skirt and hem. The front and back of the bodice and sleeves are also decorated with narrow vertical parallel lines of thread. It fastens at the back with a mother of pearl button and a hook and eye.
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.