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dress, woman's

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  • Other Name

    dress, tennis

  • Description

    dress, woman's, apricot silk dress and belt, [superbly cut and styled], sleeveless, straight style, pintucking, decorative cutting and bow trim to front upper; with four pleats, partially sewn down to front skirt-unlined: with plain straight tie / belt.

    In the style of a tennis dress, however may not have been intentionally to be worn as a tennis dress. its style and quality make it suitable to be worn as a day dress.

    .1 Late 1920's pale gold silk dress. Bodice front yoke following line of scoop neckline and finishing with bow at centre. 6 pintucks over each breast. Fiddle-shaped centre front panel. 4 pleats skirt front, topstitched from waist to hip.Back bodice yoke echos front. Back skirt plain. 2 belt loops side waist.Sleeveless. Neck and armhole edges piped edges.

    .2 176cm belt."

  • Place
    [New Zealand] [France]
  • Accession Number
    1995.49.1
  • Department

    Applied Arts and Design

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