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Description: | Cream rayon crepe with squared neckline and cf panel to below waist and over shoulders, embroidered with tiny seedpearls and diamante stones over applied flowers in lace. Long sleeves gathered into shoulders, and gathering at bust and low waist. Long train with copious embroidery matching cf panel. Woven label, right side shoulder: 'The Gladola brand'.
Posted to the museum anonymously but with an unsigned letter relating that the donor had seen the dress as a small girl in the window of a charity shop in Cheshire in the 1970s priced 10p. She had persuaded her mother to get it for her as it looked so wonderfully glamorous, but had never worn it. She wanted it to have a good home, so was sending it to us, 30 years later.
A ready-to-wear dress but still showing hand embroidery and complex construction.
Material: rayon
Material: crepe | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.41780 | Go to resource |
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