PAGE BOY SUIT, Top A, Bottom B.

A. Cream satin jacket top, long sleeves with turned back cuffs fastened with hooks and eyes. Jacket front fastening with hooks and eyes. Cream georgette frill around neck forming small jabot in front. Snap fasteners and stitching around waist area indicate a sash was worn, probably a coloured one. B. Matching cream satin trousers lined with fine cream coloured cotton. Front placket fastening decorated with a vertical row of four self covered buttons on either side. Inside of waist has hooks to attach to eyes on outside of jacket and snap fasteners. Bottoms of trouser legs also decorated with three self covered buttons with snap fasteners underneath them. Garment is machine stitched and hand finished. Suit was worn by John Burt, born 4.4.1911 at the wedding of Hilda Maude Burt, daughter of Septimus, to Kenneth Messer at St. Georges' Cathedral on the 18th April, 1914. The 'West Australian' describes the suit as a 'Kate Greenaway suit of white satin'. John's sister, Ursula was the flowergirl, the children were the niece and nephew of the bride. Their parents were Mr & Mrs Archie Burt. John also wore his present, a gold safety pin brooch. The reception was held at Strawberry Hill, the Burt family residence in Adelaide Terrace.

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