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Silhouette Streamlining Fashions


8 January to 16 February 2008

Silhouette Clothes modelled by Stephanie and Jacqueline from Christ's College

Celebrating 10 years of costume exhibitions at Guildford House Gallery, Marion May returned with fascinating garments from her renowned collection.

Showing a series of black and white dresses from 1870 to 1950, this exhibition depicted the changing silhouette of dresses from a trained white muslin of the 1870s to the s-bend outline of a black beaded evening dress of the Edwardian days.  A black and white tunic dress and a black net dance dress that were worn during World War I were displayed, as well as a mid-20s black satin party dress with a short handkerchief hemline.  The 1930s were represented by a pleated white tennis dress and a patterned black and white dress shows the 'New Look' of the late 1940s.

Guildford House Gallery
155 High Street
Guildford
Surrey
GU1 3AJ

Tel: 01483 444742
Fax: 01483 458563
Email: guildfordhouse@guildford.gov.uk

 

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