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Metadata
Object ID # |
2017.002.004 |
Object Name |
Dress |
Title |
Bride's Going-Away Dress (1929) |
Date |
1929 |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
Bognor, Municipality of Meaford, Grey County |
Description |
"Going away" dress worn by Katharine Brownlee after her marriage. It s machine-sewn orangy-yellow crepe (silk crepe? rayon?) sleeveless dress. The drop waist area has a faux belt with a point and horizontal stitching to contrast with the vertical tuck stitches below it in the skirt. The back side has a deep v area, filled in with a matching modesty piece. A matching blue-tipped yellow bow hangs at the bottom of the back vee. The front side has four sets of buttonhole-style fastening slits towards the top, for holding a twisted yellow cord tightener / swinging piece, that has a long two tassel design with matching cords, that each end with three dark green dyed wooden beads. See RELATED for the dress jacket that accompanied the dress. |
Provenance |
Maker unknown. It might have been hand-made at Bognor, Sydenham Township, Grey County. Belonged to and worn by Katharine Crawford Frizzell, a schoolteacher from Bognor, Sydenham Township, Grey County, on her wedding day as part of her "going away" dress. She had a number of dresses given to her at a prior "trousseau tea". She married Reverend Stuart Henry Brownlee at St. George's Anglican Church, in Owen Sound, Grey County, on August 14, 1929, at twelve o'clock (noon). The Brownlees resided at Kerrwood, Ontario. Around 1963, Katharine Brownlee worked in Huron County. The item was passed on to her son, John S. Brownlee, QC., who kept it in Calgary, Alberta. It was sent back to Grey County in January, 2017. |
Collection |
Textiles, 20th-c Clothing Collection, Women's |
Material |
Crepe/Silk Crepe?/Cord/Thread/Wood/Dye |
Dimensions |
W-81 L-107 D-1 cm |
Found |
Alberta, Canada |
People |
Brownlee, Katharine Crawford |
Subjects |
Wedding costume Weddings Brides Teachers Marriage Clothing & dress |
Search Terms |
Bognor |
Function |
It was customary to have a nice outfit suitable for travelling in, to wear on one's wedding day before departing on a honeymoon. They were referred to as "going away" dresses. The matching jacket worn with it would have been worn in the day-time. With it removed, the flapper-style swinging beaded tassel at the front of the dress would have made it a good dancing dress. |