CHILD'S FANCY DRESS

Child’s dress with white silk bodice and skirt, knee length, with 2x pleated under layers, full/puff elbow length sleeves & round high neckline. Covered with brightly coloured flags & badges of the possessions of the British Empire and b&w photographic portrait prints of 20 Governors of the ‘Kings Dominions Beyond the Seas’. Red/white/blue rows of ruffled ribbon to skirt hem, red/white/blue plaited ribbon to neckline, sleeve cuffs & waist, with 2x bows to the front and 1x bow to the centre back. Back seam of bodice enclosed with metal hook and eye fasteners.

Features, 20 black and white oval shaped photographic portrait prints on paper with typed name appended to each. Names of persons featured in portraits and placement on dress as follows;
Front bodice;
[p/right shoulder] ‘Sir P. Girouard/ North Nigeria’ (Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Northern Nigeria, 1907-1909)
[p/left shoulder] ‘Sir H. E. McCallum/ Ceylon’ (Governor of Ceylon, 1907)
[centre, below neckline] ‘Earl of Dudley/ Australia’ (William Ward, 4th Governor-General of Australia, 1908-1911)
[centre] ‘H. M. THE KING’ (King Edward VII, 1901-1910)
[above waist] ‘Hon. Alfred Deakin/ Australia’ (Prime Minister of Australia, 1903-1904, 1905-1908, 1909-1910)
Front skirt;
[below waist] ‘Earl of Minto/ India’ (Governor-General of India, 1905-1910)
[p/right hem] ‘The Right Hon. Louis Botha/ South Africa’ (1st Prime Minister of the Transvaal, 1907-1910)
[p/left hem] ‘Sir Leander Starr Jameson/ South Africa’ (10th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, 1904-1908)
Back bodice;
[p/left shoulder back] '(?)'
[p/right shoulder back] ‘Earl of (?)/ South Africa'
[p/left mid] ‘Sir J. G. Ward/ New Zealand’ (17th Prime Minister of New Zealand, 1906-1912, 1928-1930)
[p/right mid] ‘Lord Plunket/ New Zealand’ (14th Governor of New Zealand, 1904-1910)
Back skirt;
[p/left below waist] ‘Sir S. H. Olivier/ Jamaica’ (Governor of Jamaica, 1907-1913)
[p/right below waist] ‘Sir Wilfrid Laurier/ Canada’ (7th Prime Minister of Canada, 1896-1911)
[p/left hem] ‘Sir (?)/ Pacific Island’
[p/right hem] ‘Sir Cavendish Boyle/ Mauritius’ (19th Governor of Mauritius, 1904-1911)
Side;
[p/right hem] ‘(?)’
[p/left hem] ‘(?)’

[p/left sleeve] ‘(?)’
[p/right sleeve] ‘(?)’

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History Collection

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