DRESS: CREAM SHORT SLEEVES WITH MULTI COLOURED EMBROIDERED FLOWERS

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c. 1930 - 1940

Subcollections

Overview

Short sleeved dress with triangular tucked voile inserts, three to each sleeve and twelve to lower skirt. Curved tucks run from waist to apex of each triangular insert. Bodice front has drawn threadwork in geometric pattern. Apex of all triangular tucks and bodice front are embroidered with multi coloured posies of flowers. Belt at waist with circular plastic? (pseudo mother-of-pearl) buckle. Ladder work on lace.

Historical information

Owned by Doxie Aris, former Subiaco resident.

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-43-1984.216

Item type

Textiles

Contextual Information

This dress was owned by Doxie Aris.
Doxie Winifred Doggett born Claremont 1915 to Ernest William Doggett and Ethel May (nee Slater). Doxie married Charles Lloyd Aris in 1951

The Doggett family lived at 45 Hopetown Tce, Shenton Park from the 1920s. She donated many of her household items to the museum in the 1980s
Short sleeved dress with triangular tucked voile inserts across the sleeves and skirt. There are three to each sleeve and twelve to lower skirt. Curved tucks run from waist to apex of each triangular insert. Bodice front has drawn thread work in geometric pattern. Apex of all triangular tucks and bodice front are embroidered with multi coloured posies of flowers.
A belt at the waist helps to create the waistline. Self fabric belts like this one – made of the dress material were common in the wartime period as they helped to create a waistline in very simple dresses.
The little embroidered flowers could have been hand made. This was common in the 1940s as a simple dress could be elevated with embroidered transfers or a few simple French knot roses like this dress. Transfers and embroidery patterns were readily available to purchase through newspaper ads. This was an easy way almost anyone could fancy up their dresses.

Keywords

ARIS D W

Year

c. 1930 - 1940

Statement of significance

Social. Day dress c1930.

Primary significance criteria

Artistic or aesthetic significance

Historic significance

Comparative significance criteria

Well provenanced

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