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COLEM:1973.171

Colchester Collections

dress, evening dress

Dress of salmon pink silk with a fine ribbed effect in the fabric. Tunic style shape with a round neckline, short sleeves, and drop waist created by inset elastic in horizontal seam at hips. Panel of same fabric sewn around bottom of dress with feather decoration inserted into seam. Decorative clear glass bead motif of flower and buds in the centre front of the dress and same beads sewn in a line around neckline and end of the sleeves. Possibly altered or shortened as the feathers are miss-sewn into the seam around the bottom of the skirt with half on the inside. Circa 1923-1925.

1923 - 1925

Interwar

textile, silk, elastic, glass, feather

length: 1084.00 mm
width: 506.00 mm

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