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A story told to the museum by the donor:\r\n\r\n\"One day in 1944 Jane received a surprise invitation to a party.  She was only four years old, and very much wanted to go to it – parties happened very seldom because of the war – but she had grown a lot recently and her party dress was too small for her.  Her mother, Elizabeth, couldn’t buy her a new one, or even enough fabric to make one, because she would have to pay for it with coupons as well as money.  This was the wartime rationing scheme: each person had only a limited number of coupons, and the family had none left at that time.  But Elizabeth had thought of an idea, although by now it was the night before the party.  When Jane had gone to bed, she got out her sewing things and every scrap of spare fabric she could find in the house.  She sat up all night cutting and stitching, and in the morning, there was Jane’s new party dress – cleverly made out of all the different pieces stitched together into patchwork.\"\r\n","physicalDescription":"Patchwork of silks and cottons of a variety of colours.\r\n\r\nGirl's frock of mulicoloured patchwork in silks (including patachute silk) and cottons, the dress has a squared neckline with an organdie frill, and padded puffed sleeves are lined, and the gathered skirt had a built-in organdie petticoat with a hem frill. The fress fastens at the back with five pearlised buttons and stitched buttonholes. \n\nWith the dress are two photographs of it being worn by its owner as a child. 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On entry to the museum its condition was noted as 'very good'","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Girl's patchwork party dress, with two photographs of her; UK, 1944","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Unique","id":"THES48864"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"<b>Clothing from scraps </b>\n\nDuring the Second World War, fabric rationing meant new clothing was in short supply. Mothers, who often made their children’s clothes, came up with creative solutions. \n\r\nThe white dress shown here is made of silk from rejected military parachutes. The patchwork dress was made to wear to a party – the wearers’ mother sewed together every scrap of fabric she could find. \n\n<b>1 Patchwork party dress </b>\r\nMaker: Elizabeth Draper \r\nDate: 1944 \r\nLocation: UK \r\nMaterials: Silk and cotton patchwork \r\nGiven by Mrs Elizabeth Pearce \r\nMuseum no. MISC.265-1983 \n\r\n<b>2 Silk dress </b>\r\nMaker: Jane Birch \r\nDate: 1947 \r\nLocation: UK \r\nMaterials: Nylon parachute silk \r\nGiven by Dr Margaret H. Birch \r\nMuseum no. MISC.27-1979 \r\n\r\n\r\n[Young V&amp;A, Design gallery, Design makes things last longer, group object label]","date":{"text":"01/07/2023","earliest":"2023-07-01","latest":"2023-07-01"}}],"partNumbers":["MISC.265-1983","MISC.265A-1983","MISC.265B-1983"],"accessionNumberNum":"265","accessionNumberPrefix":"MISC","accessionYear":1983,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-09-29","recordCreationDate":"2004-04-26","availableToBook":false}}