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Description: | Evening dress in scarlet loose woven wool; home-made a length of liberated Nazi bunting given to relief workers in post war Germany.
Sleeveless full length evening dress, keyhole neckline with red plastic button. Large shoulder pads stiffened with buckram. Side placket fastening with German steel zip at CB.
Donor was UN RRA worker in 1945, and bolts of Nazi bunting in red, white and black were distributed to relief workers by US Army. They came from a German Army Supply Depot near the UN RRA camp at Rosenheim : donor had it made up by a good dressmaker in the town and wore it for camp parties & dances, for two years - finally at Wildflecker, a camp for 13,000 Poles. See B&W photo of the donor in the dress.
Technique: woven
Material: wool
evening dress made in Germany, Europe, 1945, (1982.503). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.11632 | Go to resource |
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