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Joan Klee (middle) is dressed in an outfit she created for a Palmerston North Diamond Jubilee Parade. It caused quite the stir at the time because of its transparent bottom half. She was a window-dresser for the department store Collinson and Cunninghame, and was thought to be the first qualified female window-dresser in the country. She was instructed in the art of window-dressing by Claude Dixon, who had traveled to the United States to study at the prestigious Macy's Department Store.

Identification

Object type
Image
Digitisation ID
2014P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_008478
Title
Dressed for the 60th Jubilee of Palmerston North
Relation
Digital Photograph Collection, with no hardcopy held
Held In
IMCA Digital Archive

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Creation

Created By
Place
Palmerston North
Date
1937

Object rights

Credit Line
Palmerston North City Library

Taxonomy

Tags
beautiful,
dress,
fashion,
hat,
parade,
people,
pretty,
sash,
women,
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