Boy's dress
Category
Costume
Date
circa 1914
Materials
Muslin and embroidery thread
Measurements
425 mm (length)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661645
Summary
A boy's cream muslin dress. The skirt has a scalloped edge and is embroidered with flowers and leaves. The short sleeves have zigzag edges. There are some embroidered flowers at the back of the neck.
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.