1936 Black crepe dress
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1935-1937 A black rayon crepe dress with coloured sections.
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The back of the dress
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Detail of the front bodice
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Detail of one of the sleeves showing the gathers
Description
The dress is made of black satin backed rayon crepe.
The bodice is lined with peach crêpe de Chine.
The shoulder seams are open on each side with four press studs to fasten them, and there is no other opening.
The front and back of the bodice has V shaped insertions from the shoulders ending in points each side at the waist. They are made of black net with applied diagonal strips of black voile which has a gold woven pattern and polychrome printed flowers; they are ⅝" apart, in graduated widths from ¾" to 1⅜", and there are five each side on the front and four on the back.
Two bows of ½" wide strips of the printed voile are at the base of the V neckline in the centre front, and the neck edge has an ⅛" wide binding of black rayon;
A frill of black net over peach chiffon, 1½" wide, goes round the back neck, the ends extending 2" down the front edges, with two press studs to attach to the bodice fronts each side.
The sleeves are slightly gathered into the armhole seams, widening out and gathered into 4½" deep cuffs. These are bands of the black net with three printed strips in graduated widths; the ends are bound with black rayon, and the seams are open for 3" at the end with three press studs to fasten them. The front of the sleeves above the cuffs have a section of tight horizontal gathers, 4" wide and 4¾" long.
The stiffened self belt is 1⅜" wide, and and covers the waist seam, with loopy gilt rosette buckle clasps to fasten at the centre front; worked belt loops are on the side seams.
Contemporary illustrations
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Detail from a fashion drawing in Le Petit Echo de la Mode, January 1936
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Detail from a fashion drawing in Le Petit Echo de la Mode, January 1936
History
The dress belonged to Rose Gibson, Rose Wood, of Crockenhill, Kent, who married Bruce Gibson in 1894.
It was acquired from Marjorie Robinson, her daughter.