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Description: | spun rayon printed with wide dark brown stripe close to one selvedge, border pattern of stripes: quatrefoils in drab and ginger on mid brown, vermilion lozenges in brown lattice on brown, drab, brown and white quatrefoils on ginger, and lozenge-tipped vandykes in drab; main pattern of lattice of three vandykes in vermilion, octagons with crosses, quatrefoils, lozenges in colours at crossings; inside lattice lozenges with angular hooks in vermilion and brown, drab and ginger, drab and deeper drab with crossed lozenge in centre and crossed square below; long skirted; short sleeved, with a brown band around the waist and the hem; brown wooden buttons down the front down to the waist; homemade, bodice: deep curved neck; two fronts, right overlapping left, each shaped one waist dart; two backs, each shaped one waist dart; fabric so cut that the dark brown stripe is horizontal above waist
sleeves: short; one piece, gathered at head; inside applied strip of fabric as casing for elastic tape (missing) to create puff
skirt: long; four flared panels, gathered at waist; hem with frill, cut so that dark brown stripe forms a band along the bottom
lining: neck and centre fronts faced with self fabric; dark brown nylon jersey in bodice only
fastening: at centre back, hook and worked bar, YKK brown nylon zip; on bodice, at centre front, three unequally spaced wooden buttons, all two hole with dished centres, made by donor. Louise Dyer was born in Jamaica in 1941 and came to England in 1957. She worked as a ward sister at Saxondale Hospital from 1979 to 1986 [her uniform NCM 1998-75/1-3]. This dress and other items [NCMG 2006-19 – 30 and NAS 10,013] are part of a collection formed by her of typical items used by the first and second waves of immigrants from Jamaica. They were previously displayed at the Afro Caribbean Family and Friends Centre, Beaconsfield Street as part of the Broxtowe Memory Lane Project in October 2004.
Accession number: NCMG 2006-30 | Subjects: | printed textiles costume (women's) | Temporal: | 1970-1975 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Creator: | Saxondale | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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