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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. Joan Klee married Kenneth Lindsey Mcdonald

Identification

Object type
Image
Relation
Digital Photograph Collection, with no hardcopy held
Date
1937
Digitisation ID
2014P_IMCA-DigitalMaster_008475
Held In
"IMCA Digital Archive"

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