dress
- Museum number
- Oc2004,03.3
- Description
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Island dress, for a child, made of brown synthetic fabric with white-and-brown motif. Panels of maroon synthetic fabric. Decorated with pink lace sewn on hem of the skirt. 'Wings' of fabric, bordered with pink lace, attached at hips. Sleeves unhemmed.
- Production date
- March 2004
- Dimensions
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Length: 58.80 centimetres
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Width: 36.70 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Lissant Bolton's field notes: 'Jacklin has a small stall in the covered market in Port Vila’s main street (Centrepoint Market). She has had the stall for four years. She sells dresses and some Solomons jewellery etc). She sells island dresses both to tourists and to ni-Vanuatu (both from Vila and from the islands). Sam Obed and I interviewed her in footage for the film, although none of this footage is in the film itself, and I bought the dress as a way of saying thank you.
This Mixed Fabric style developed just at the end of 2002, and took off in 2003. It may result from one store in town starting to sell a variety of plain fabrics (Mok Stoa, opposite the police station). The plain fabrics were introduced primarily for making school and other uniform. This is currently principally an urban style.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good.
- Acquisition date
- 2004
- Acquisition notes
- Made to be sold in Centrepoint Market stall. Purchased by Lissant Bolton from maker/vendor, Jacklin Danny, with funds from the Clothing the Pacific Project (BM/Goldsmiths/UCL). Donation from the CTP project.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Oc2004,03.3