Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
1994.046.005 |
Object Name |
Dress |
Other Name |
Dress, Evening |
Title |
D'Allairds Zippered Evening Gown |
Lexicon category |
3: Personal Artifacts |
Year Range from |
1935 |
Year Range to |
1940 |
Artist |
D'Allairds |
Made |
D'Allairds |
Place of Origin |
Unknown |
Description |
Long, black, back-zippered evening gown with triple spaghetti straps that go from top of bodice, over shoulder to back of dress on each side. Made by/for D'Allairds - label affixed to interior. |
Makers mark |
Label interior |
Provenance |
Made for/by D'Allairds. An early 20th-century item. The last owner, Bessie Newman, told museum staff that it had belonged to someone in the Witherspoon family (her husband's maternal relations). The Witherspoons had a farm at Jackson, Grey County (west of Owen Sound). Jessie, Anne, Lillian, Maud, Walter, Dave, Jim and Peter were members of the family. |
Collection |
Textiles, 20th-c Clothing Collection, Women's |
Material |
Fabric/Thread/Metal/Dye |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Witherspoon, Lillian J. Newman, Bessie |