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Dress

1974 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Sun-dress of roller-printed cotton. With a full flared skirt, and white pique flaps along the edge of the bodice top, the pocket flaps and pique shoulder straps. The dress buttons down the centre back skirt with a row of large white buttons. Wedge-shaped patch pockets on the front hips. The fabric is a black ground cotton roller-printed with a design of cigarettes and old-style cigarette packets including Player's Navy Cut, Player's Airman, Churchman's Top Score Cigarettes, Churchman's No 1 Cigarettes, Capstan Navy Cut Cigarettes, and Wills' Gold Flake Honeydew. Printed in yellow, red, blue, green and black.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Roller-printed cotton
Brief description
Sun-dress of roller-printed cotton, designed by Rae Spencer-Cullen, textile made by Squeekers Ltd., England, 1974
Physical description
Sun-dress of roller-printed cotton. With a full flared skirt, and white pique flaps along the edge of the bodice top, the pocket flaps and pique shoulder straps. The dress buttons down the centre back skirt with a row of large white buttons. Wedge-shaped patch pockets on the front hips. The fabric is a black ground cotton roller-printed with a design of cigarettes and old-style cigarette packets including Player's Navy Cut, Player's Airman, Churchman's Top Score Cigarettes, Churchman's No 1 Cigarettes, Capstan Navy Cut Cigarettes, and Wills' Gold Flake Honeydew. Printed in yellow, red, blue, green and black.
Dimensions
  • Length: 106cm
  • Skirt width: 115cm (maximum)
Dress size 36
Production typeReady to wear
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
CIRC.442-1974

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Record createdJanuary 16, 2008
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