Blue Splash
Dress
c.1955 (designed and made)
c.1955 (designed and made)
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Sleeveless chemise dress with flounced hem, separate self-fabric tie belt. In a white ground cotton printed with a blue splash pattern.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Title | Blue Splash (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | printed cotton |
| Brief description | Joyce Badrocke (1926-2020). Cotton dress and belt made from "Blue Splash" printed cotton designed for Horrockses, c.1955 |
| Physical description | Sleeveless chemise dress with flounced hem, separate self-fabric tie belt. In a white ground cotton printed with a blue splash pattern. |
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| Credit line | Given by Joyce Badrocke |
| Object history | Part of the archive of Joyce Ellen Badrocke, who, with her twin sister Joan, was a textile designer for Horrockses Fashions in the late 1940s and 1950s. Joyce worked at Hanover Square in London for seven years between 1951 and 1958, commuting in from Sussex daily. She occupied herself on the train journeys from Sussex to London and back by sewing patchwork in small portions to make up into larger quilts, using many of her own fabric designs for Horrockses. Joyce made this dress for herself from her own fabric design, which she called Blue Splash. The print was also available in pink. |
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| Accession number | T.206:1&2-2016 |
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| Record created | October 28, 2016 |
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