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Cotton House Dress

Accession #:	4034.1
Title:	Cotton House Dress
Object Type:	Dress
Participants:	Miss Spokane, Incorporated Crescent Department Store Leib, Anna (creator) Edwards Manufacturing Company
Physical Description:	Plaid cotton house dress; primarily blue with red, green and white. Short-sleeved with white cuffs and collar. Oyster shell buttons and belt buckle.
Description:	Anna Leib's pride in appearance and attention to fashionable details is evident in this Depression-era homemade dress, created when she was about 59 years old. She exclusively purchased fabrics and notions at The Crescent department store in Spokane to make all clothing for herself and her two daughters. (Source: "Dress Code" Exhibit Text) Spokane's Miss Spokane Dress factory used mass production techniques to provide affordable 1930s house dresses. Home sewers like Anna Lieb and thousands of other women deployed personal skills to stretch budgets. (Source: "Mutual Seduction" Exhibit Text)
Category:	Textiles
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:	Outerwear (Personal Artifact->Clothing); Women (Women)
Materials/Techniques:	cotton (textile) ( -> -> -> ) (Material)
Related Exhibits:	Dress Code
Credit Line:	Gift of Mrs. Lois Stadtmueller, 2002

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