Object Record
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Metadata
Object ID # |
2011.011.021 |
Object Name |
Dress |
Title |
Girl's Yellow Dress |
Lexicon category |
3: Personal Artifacts |
Date |
1930s |
Year Range from |
1930 |
Year Range to |
1940 |
Made |
Unknown |
Place of Origin |
Keppel Township (formerly), Township of Georgian Bluffs, Grey County (?) |
Description |
Girl's dress, with two silvertone metal snap closures at the back. The fabric is likely cotton, and it has a dull, peachy-yellow colouration, with pastel pink binding at the two shoulder straps. These are solid, and have no fasteners. When the dress is worn, they are hidden by the shaped sleeves, which are attached to the front yoke. The skirt of the dress is gathered into the yoke. There is a lot of hand-stitching, and no lining. It appears to be home-made. The hem is plain. |
Provenance |
Maker unknown. Dates to the early 1930s. Belonged to Audrey Isabell Matches (1929 - 2010) as a young girl. She trained as a nurse at the Owen Sound General and Marine Hospital, and graduated in 1951. She did post-graduate work in British Columbia. She worked for a long time at the General and Marine Hospital, and subsequently at the Grey Bruce Regional Health Centre. Audrey Matches was an Operating Room nurse and retired in 1988. She died on August 15, 2010. The Matches family burials are in Hillcrest Cemetery, in Tara, Bruce County. |
Collection |
Textiles, 20th-c Clothing Collection, Child, Female |
Material |
Cotton/Thread/Metal snaps |
Found |
Owen Sound, Grey County |
People |
Matches, Audrey Isabell |
Subjects |
Girls Children's clothing & dress |
Search Terms |
Keppel Township |