dress
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumartifact37852
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Accession Code
- BV995.20.513
- Description
- Dress, c.1925-1929. Light brown rayon crepe. Straight cut, long sleeved, V neck with bow, waist ties, panel with embroidered false pocket, knee length half pleated skirt. There is a "v" panel of blue crepe inserted into the V neck as an accent, two inches in from the neck edge. At the point of the V there are two brown sashes tied in a square knot. The bodice puffs out slightly at the dropped waist. The bodice front is underlined cotton muslin attached at the shoulders and waist, which allows it to puff out slightly. The sleeves have two small pleats at the elbow. They end in a placket and cuff, and close with a snap at the cuff base. Long ties to tie in the back are sewn into the waist side seams. Hanging from the waist front is a slightly flared panel that scoops up from the right side to the left. On the larger section on the right side there is a faux pocket tacked on, embroidered in white, blue, and gold floss. Under the hanging panel, there is another band on the front that mimics its shape in the dress itself. The skirt hangs from the under panel with small box pleats covering the right side front. The back of the dress is entirely un-shaped. There is a tag on the left sleeve cuff that reads, "Cloth", "647", "Size 16..."; "22.00"; "Deckelbaum & 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.
- Maker
- Deckelbaum & Eisenberg
- Site/City Made
- Montreal
- Subjects
- Clothing
- Clothing - Costumes