Dress for a girl of about 18 months,cCream and brown striped polyester sleeveless flared style, probably made in England, 1970s.

The dress has a high round neckline and small capped sleeves of a double thickness of material. The fabric used for the dress is a cream polyester with different thicknesses and two different shades of brown stripes, which are, in turn, layered with smaller stripes, resembling an animal print.
The bodice of the dress is cut so the stripes fall vertically on the front, they sit diagonally on the skirt and horizontally on the back of the bodice. The dress is seamed at the waist and the skirt flares out, cut on the bias from a circular section of fabric and hemmed down the sides of the dress. The dress fastens using a metal zip at the back, which finishes at the waistline.

This dress, along with numbers B.220-2011 to B.239-2011, are all from the same batch of dead shop stock from a childrenswear shop that shut down in the late 1970s. As a result all of the items in this lot are in mint condition, many still have their shop labels attached. All items were purchased via a house clearance company.

This garment is part of a range of childrenswear from the 1970s.
These clothes were all dead stock from a childrenswear shop which shut down around the end of the 1970s. Many of the clothes were made in the far east and were imported for sale in the UK. All the garments are unworn, and many retain the brand tags and labels they were initially sold with and give us a valuable snapshot of the styles and fashions that were available to both girls and boys of different ages during this period.

B.224-2011