dress

Description: Dress, c.1925-1929. Navy rayon crepe. Long sleeves, V-neck with clear rhinestones. Dropped waist with belt, faux pockets, and knee length pleated skirt. Plain straight back. The V neck overlaps at centre front, with a snap to give the overlap a diamond shape. Four small clear white rhinestone buttons with black backings are sewn along the bottom left of the V neck (one rhinestone is missing). The rest of the bodice is plain, without shaping. The sleeves have two small pleats at the elbow, and small cuffs with plackets held together by snaps. The dropped waistline has a thin belt tacked to the waistline in five places. A decorative celluloid buckle sits centre front with gold background and inlaid rust and green splotches. Hanging from the waistline is a panel that comes to a point on either side of centre front. On the panel's right and left front there is a faux pocket opening. Underneath this panel is a section of white cotton muslin; attached to the muslin is a skirt covered in tiny pleats on its front. The front of the skirt has a small double fold hem, while the back has a 6 cm hem. There is an inspection tag on the right sleeve cuff that reads: "Deckelbaum & Eisenberg, Montreal" "Order No..", "Style", handprinted "532"; "Cloth", "1313G"; "Size"- "16"; "Operator"-"11.50"; "Remarks", "Finisher"; "13" written in pencil on lower part of tag; "3" on tag back

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.

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