Asymmetric ball dress

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Title

Asymmetric ball dress

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New Zealand Fashion Museum

Collection

New Zealand Fashion Museum

Description

This asymmetric dress was made for the annual Plunket Ball, part of the winter social calendar in Eastbourne, Wellington. Short ball dresses were not usual at
this time and this one was sure to have turned heads. A self taught home sewer, Byllee was inspired by an aunt who sent her hand-made clothes throughout her childhood. As good fortune would have it, Byllee married fabric wholesaler Douglas McDonald of William McDonald Co Ltd, giving her access to beautiful and unusual fabrics. Making he...

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Date created

Circa 1957

URL

https://www.nzfashionmuseum.org.nz/a/asymmetric-ball-dress/

Related subjects

Ball dress

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