1950s-1960s: RECONSTRUCTION/MATERIALISM - DRESSES
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FFS00587 AIAB Late 1950s - 1960s homemade dress. Cotton, with white/beige
background, pink flower pattern. Two deep pockets. Knee length.
(colour, domesticity, home dressmaking, organic)
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FFS00588 AIAB Late 1950s-1960s homemade shift dress.
Brown and cream abstract check.
Scooped V-neckline with large collar, sleeveless. Knee length.
(colour, fashion, home dressmaking)
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FFS00589 AIAB 1960s homemade dress - front view.
Metallic blue, round neck, sleeveless. Scooped neckline. Knee length.
(colour, fashion, glamour, home dressmaking)
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FFS00590 AIAB 1960s homemade dress - back view.
Metallic blue, scooped V-back with a large bow. Knee length.
(colour, fashion, glamour, home dressmaking)
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FFS00591 AIAB Late 1950s-1960s Black evening dress - front view.
Scooped, square neckline. Sleeveless. Shop retailed - K. C. Ltd.
(fashion, glamour, ready-to-wear)
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FFS00592 AIAB Late 1950s-1960s Black evening dress - back view.
Scooped, V-back with long sash attached, same material.
Shop retailed - K. C. Ltd.,
(fashion, glamour, ready-to-wear)
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FFS00593 AIAB 1960s Psychedelic hand made, shift dress with small, roll collar.
Knee length, Lime green, citrus yellow and pink chiffon.
(fashion, glamour, home dressmaking)
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FFS00594 AIAB 1960s Black hand made, shift dress, sleeveless, round neck - front view.
Neckline/dress front decorated with hand embroidered patterning
and heavy turquoise beads.
(fashion, femininity, glamour, foreign travel)
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FFS00595 AIAB 1960s Black hand made shift dress, sleeveless, round neck.
Front view - neckline detail.
Black fabric background embellished with hand embroidered patterning and heavy turquoise beads.
(fashion, femininity, glamour, foreign travel)
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TEXTS
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Christopher Breward, ‘Late twentieth century: catwalk and street style’, Chapter 7, in, The Culture of Fashion, Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1995, pp. 225-236.
Martin Harrison, Appearances, Fashion Photography Since 1945, Jonathan Cape, London, 1991.
Valerie Mendes and Amy De La Haye, ‘1957-1967: Affluence and the Teenage Challenge‘, Chapter 6, in, 20th Century Fashion, Thames and Hudson, London, 1999, pp. 158-191.
Hilary Radner, ‘On the Move: Fashion Photography and the Single Girl in the 1960s’, in, Fashion Cultures; Theories, Explorations and Analysis, Routledge, London, 200, pp. 128-142.
Valerie Steele, ‘Ups and Downs of Paris Fashion’, Chapter 14, in, Paris Fashion; A Cultural Reader, Berg, Oxford, 1988, pp. 275-290.
John Styles, ‘Dress in History: Reflections on a Contested Terrain’, in, Fashion Theory, the Journal of Dress, Body and Culture, Volume 2, Issue 4, December 1998, pp. 383-389.
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