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It functioned both as a sunshade and a fashionable accompaniment to dress, distinguishing itself from the umbrella through its infinite and luxurious forms and essentially feminine status. Like the earlier trend for fans parasols displayed an individual's style and could be used in a coquettish ritual to hide the modest bearer from unwanted glances.\r\n\r\nWith more covered automobiles and the new vogue for sun-tanned skin, the 1920s were the parasol's swansong. Elaborate and novel designs flooded the market in an attempt to win back interest. The cover of this white silk parasol forms a flower when opened, with petals of white picot-edged georgette and a centre formed by the ivory capped ferrule. 'Floriform' designs such as this were first fashionable in the 1850s but were one of numerous novelties revived in the 1920s.  Characteristically for this period it is short in length, approximately half what was typical in the previous decade.","physicalDescription":"Parasol with a domed cover, made from white silk with a ruche around the tip. With petal shapes extending from the tip to the border suggesting the shape of a flower, with machine hem-stitched edges.\nThe stick is short and made from wood. The handle is of wood, grooved and tipped with carved ivory to suggest the pistil of a flower. The ribs are of hollow section white metal with tips of grooved wood with ivory. There is a ruche of silk inside the apex and at the junction of stays and white metal slider. 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