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Description: | 'classical style' full length evening dress in mid brown silk chiffon with fully gathered and asymmetrical skirt and swathed sleeveless boned bodice; very full net underskirt; woven labels 'Christian Dior London, B1331' and 'Kendal Milne, Manchester' and small woven label 'size 18'.
worn by Agnes Miles 1911-1989, in the later 1950s for evening events
Mrs Miles was a senior sales assistant at Kendal Milne & Co from 1951-8 and then at Samuels, King St, Manchester from 1958 until the closure of the shop in 1968.
Material: silk
Material: chiffon
dress by Christian Dior, London, Kendal Milne and Co, 1955-58, (2002.37). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.15009 | Go to resource |
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