Mail Order Dress

This dress belonged to my husband’s mother, Eva. It is of a sheer material and from the 1920’s - 1930’s. It has a long flared skirt with a ruffle at the hem, short sleeves, a sheer gathered trim around the collar and a loose empire waist.

I don’t know how she got the dress or where she wore it so I created a story that maybe she ordered it through a mail order catalog. I wrapped it up in brown paper, added a mailing label, and tied it with a string. Then I unwrapped it and added a coat hanger like she was ready to put it in the closet after she tried it on. Then maybe something interrupted her and she lay the dress down on the paper and tossed the string over the paper and dress and went to take care of what distracted her from hanging the dress up.

At the time there would have been no need to take a photo of this ordinary scene much less paint a picture of it but now I find every reason to paint and document a garment that is 80+ years old that belonged to my mother-in-law.

Oil on canvas board

13" X 15", framed

$585.00, plus shipping

Leighann Foster, foster3@gvtc.com

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