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PHOTOGRAPH: HISTORICAL SOCIETY FASHION PARADE, SUBIACO WEEK, 1979

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1979

Overview

Colour photograph of the Subiaco Historical Society's Fashion Parade during Subiaco Week, 1979, held outside the Museum. The model is wearing a light mustard coloured ensemble, the jacket having long sleeves with puffed upper section, the dress belted and with calf-length wide skirt. The dress was worn by Helen Passmore's mother, Enid Ross (born Subiaco 1910) on her wedding in 1940 to Stan Ford. The ensemble is not in the Museum's collection. Shown standing at the end of the catwalk with members of the Society and other spectators in the background

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Registration number

cwa-org-43-1993.204

Item type

Material

Photographic Paper

Width

88 mm

Height or length

124 mm

Keywords

Subiaco Historical Society

Costume/fashion

Sesqui-Centenary

Year

1979

Statement of significance

local and social history

Subiaco Museum

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