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A Sweet Life

An exhibition about fashion in a Liverpool sugar merchant's family, held at Sudley House from 9 April 2009 to Spring 2010.

Evening dress, silk crepe and rayon jersey, about 1925

Made by Gerlaur, 33 Faubourg Poissonnière, Paris

Accession number 1967.187.55

long slender dress with a pattern of beads, displayed on a wooden mannequin

Evening dress of black silk crepe, decorated with applied glass bugle beads and mirrors. Separate underslip of machine-knitted black rayon jersey.

detail showing decorative border of beads and mirrors on dress

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