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Dress made by Miss Spokane Inc.

Accession #:	3866.2
Title:	Dress made by Miss Spokane Inc.
Object Type:	Dress
Participants:	Miss Spokane, Incorporated Watters, Helen Stewart (user) Edwards Manufacturing Company
Physical Description:	"Miss Spokane" label short sleeved cotton pique dress with geometric design and pink cording and pink diamond shaped insert at front. Dress has a pink belt and collar with pink welt pockets at the hips.
Description:	Many women worked to help support their families during the Great Depression, despite government efforts to protect jobs for un-employed male "breadwinners." The 1930s Miss Spokane dress factory used mass production techniques to create practical, stylish, affordable clothing for the local market. In addition, home sewers like Anna Lieb and thousands of other women deployed personal skills to stretch budgets.
Category:	Textiles
Subjects/Topics/Concepts:	Women (Women), Clothing (Personal Artifact)
Dimensions:	length, center back 41" (collar to hem) waist 37" bust 36"
Materials/Techniques:	piqué (Material) cotton (textile) (Material)
Marks/Inscription:	Miss Spokane, Spokane, Wash.
Related Exhibits:	Mutual Seduction: Cars and Costumes Dress Code Exhibit honoring Marsha Rooney and 30 years of service to the Eastern Washington State Historical Society. Golden Harvest: Flour Sacks from the Permanent Collection
Credit Line:	Gift of Susan (Stewart) Rumble, 1998

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