dress
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact37002
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV995.20.106
- Description
- Dress, c.1929. Mauve rayon moire taffeta. Round low neckline, sleeveless. Fairly straight bodice with three-tiers of scalloped flounces on skirt. This party dress has a bit more shaping and more ruffle decoration, as was becoming popular at the very end of the 1920s. The neckline and armholes have double fold seam finishes. The bodice has shaping with a corded dart on either side of the centre front, and gathering on the outside of each of the darts. There is also some slight gathering on the bottom front of the side seams. The dropped waistline seam is corded, and the front is scalloped. Hanging from a lining of purple cotton-rayon blend are three tiers of gathered scalloped bands. Their ends are pinked instead of hemmed. The dress has placket opening on the left side of the bodice with six snap fasteners.
- Object History
- This dress was part of a collection of dresses acquired from a dry goods store in the Okanagan. The dresses were mainly "new" old stock from the 1920s, from two Rand’s Dry Goods stores in Penticton and Summerland, B.C. The stores closed down in 1930. The dresses are estimated to date from circa 1925 to 1930.
- Subjects
- Clothing
- Clothing - Costumes