Boy's dress
Category
Costume
Date
circa 1914
Materials
Muslin, metal and embroidery thread
Measurements
412 mm (length)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661647
Summary
A boy's cream muslin short sleeved dress. The skirt and sleeves are decorated with embroidered flowers and leaves. The dress fastens at the back with three metal press studs.
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.