Nightshirt
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cotton.
Measurements
785 mm (length)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 661652
Summary
A boy's cream cotton nightshirt with a cotton lace collar and cuffs through which is threaded a cream ribbon. The nightshirt fastens at the front with two cotton covered buttons. It is badly stained and shows signs of iron mould.
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.