Summary
Dress - cream with red stripe, circa 1920. Small white calico dress with widely spaced fine, red, vertical stripes. Possibly worn by woman or child. Worn in Ward F7.
Physical Description
Child-size white calico dress with widely spaced fine, red, vertical stripes. Calf-length with wide waistband and a few tucks above and below it. Has round neck with 5-sided double layer of material back and front. Opens from top to halfway down skirt and fastens with 3 sets of brass eyelets with cotton tape. Has long sleeves.
Significance
Example of clothing worn by patients in a psychiatric hospital in Victoria Australia
More Information
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Collection Names
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Collecting Areas
Medicine & Health, Public Life & Institutions, Clothing & Textiles
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Office of Psychiatric Services, May 1985
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Date Used
Victoria, Australia, Circa 1920
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Inscriptions
F7
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Classification
Medicine & health, Mental health - institutional life, Clothing
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Type of item
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Overall Dimensions
73 cm (Length), 108 cm (Height)
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Exhibition Collection Management
730 mm (Length), 1080 mm (Height)
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Keywords
Clothing, Hospitals, Psychiatric Hospitals, Making History - Psych Services
