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Description: Dress, c.1925-1928. White cotton voile with a brown leaf pattern. Sleeveless V-neck with small revers. Belt at dropped waist, calf length pleated skirt with decorative bias tape and buttons The neckline is bound with black bias tape at the back. It forms a V in front, faced with cotton organza. The armholes are also bound with black bias tape. There is shaping in the bodice is from a dart at each bust, and it flares out slightly at the waistline. There is a dropped waist, covered by a belt of the same dress fabric. It is tacked down at centre front with a decorative celluloid buckle. A few inches below the waistline there is a decorative band of bias tape. It runs horizontally from the right side for a quarter of the way, then turns straight down for about five inches. Here it is edged on its left with five pearl buttons. The bias tape then curves back upwards to its original height on the left side of the skirt. Under the curving bias tape, there are four pleats at centre front. The back of the dress is one unshaped piece, except for a horizontal tuck across back at the belt level.

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.