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Description: | The dress has a round neck and double round yoke edged scallops. It has a centre fastening with matching buttons of plastic. The bust is shaped by gathers below the yoke and the waist seam. It has elbow-length sleeves with large shoulder pads. The narrow waistband has a tie belt and the gathered skirt has large pocket edged scallops. The skirt has been lengthened by the insertion of a black satin-backed crepe ribbon above the hem, and the sleeves and neck have been bound in black ribbon to match. When the New Look came in in 1947, clothing was still scarce and expensive so old dresses were brought up to date by lengthening the skirts, often with contrasting insertions. This dress was unsold shop stock, probably left over from when the Utility scheme ceased in 1952.
A crimson rayon dress manufactured to Utility standards, and showing signs of alterations made at the end of the Utility scheme. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/ | Publisher: | Walsall Museums | Rights holder: | Walsall Museums | Subjects: | Costume Clothing | Temporal: | c.1947
Utility (1941-1952) | Source: | Black Country History | Identifier: | http://www.blackcountryhistory.org/colle... | Go to resource |
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