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A Passion for Fashion: a Liverpool lady's wardrobe
29 April 2006 - 30 July 2006
Silk crepe and rayon jersey, about 1925
Accession number 1967.187.55
Labelled Gerlaur, 33 FAUBOURG POISSONNIÈRE, Paris
Evening dress of black silk crepe with wide boat neckline and short sleeves. Separate under-slip of machine-knitted black rayon jersey with scooped neckline.
Front and back of bodice and skirt decorated with applied clear and silver glass bugle beads and tiny oval-shaped mirrors, worked in a scrolling pattern. Two V-shaped godets of black silk crepe at sides of the skirt.
