dress

Description: Dress, c.1925-1929. Light orange silk crepe. Straight cut, long sleeves, V neck collar with pleated flounce down bodice. Two waistband with celluloid buttons, back waist tie, pleated knee length skirt. The V neck collar has a pleated edge that connects to a pleated flounce on the bodice. The flounce is tacked in place rather than hanging freely. The plain sleeves end in cuffs that close with openings that close with a snap. The bodice is straight cut and has a dropped waist with two faux waistband tucks on the front, attached to a cotton muslin panel underneath. Each tuck has three small yellowish celluloid buttons with a star design; the top tuck has its buttons in a vertical line to the left, and the bottom tuck has buttons to the right. Sewn into the side seams is a narrow sash that ties in the back. The skirt front, attached to the muslin underlining, is covered in medium sized pleats. The back of the dress is plain from the shoulders to the hem. There is a small double fold hem at the front, and a six inch hem at the back. There is a paper label sewn into right sleeve end that reads: "Order No.", "Style", "230", "Cloth", "Size - 20", "Operator", "Remarks", "110", "Finisher", "11", "Deckelbaum and Eisenberg, Montreal."

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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