Wedding Dress
Production date
1958
Country
Australia
State/Province
Queensland
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Description
Silk organza and chiffon wedding dress with guipure lace-trimmed bateau neckline and short sleeves, cinched-in waistline and full A-line skirt.
Classification
COSTUME Wedding
COSTUME Wedding woman
COSTUME Wedding woman
Maker
Production date
1958
Production place
Measurements
Centre back collar to skirt hem 1780mm
Centre back collar to waist 240mm
Shoulder 600mm sleeve end to sleeve end.
Waist to skirt hem 1460mm
Centre back collar to waist 240mm
Shoulder 600mm sleeve end to sleeve end.
Waist to skirt hem 1460mm
Media/Materials description
Silk organza
Chiffon
Chiffon
History and use
For her marriage to Joe George on 12 November 1958, Patricia George (nee Hurley) wor this silk organza and chiffon wedding dress, reminiscent of the glamourous and feminine New Look style popularised by Christian Dior in the post-World War II period.
Held on a Wednesday morning, their wedding took place two days before Pat’s nineteenth birthday at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church Coorparoo. In a move that attracted much media attention, Joe insisted that the Ford Customline wedding cars were white, not black, as was then the tradition. Following the wedding service, the bridal party and their attendants were driven down Queens Street to a lunchtime reception at well-known Brisbane wedding venue, 29 Murray Street, Wilston.
Pat's wedding dress was made by Ivy Wallace a well-known seamstress and children’s clothing designer in Brisbane from about the mid-1920s until the early 1960s whose family’s links to Queensland reach back to her paternal and maternal grandparents who had settled in the State from at least the time of its separation from New South Wales in 1859.
References to Miss Wallace in the Courier Mail and an entry in the Queensland Companies Index, indicate that she ran a dressmaking (or related) business trading under the name I. M. Wallace Pty. Ltd. Between 1941 and 1949 Miss Wallace was listed in the post office directory as a dressmaker at 151 Queen Street.
The George family have been actively engaged in the Queensland fruit and vegetable industry for over 80 years and four generations. Originally from Lebanon, Peter George Jitani and his wife Waled initially settled in the northern N.S.W. tow n of Casino where Waled gave birth to children, Peter, Joyce, Simon, Joe, Keith, Mary and Bill George.
Held on a Wednesday morning, their wedding took place two days before Pat’s nineteenth birthday at Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church Coorparoo. In a move that attracted much media attention, Joe insisted that the Ford Customline wedding cars were white, not black, as was then the tradition. Following the wedding service, the bridal party and their attendants were driven down Queens Street to a lunchtime reception at well-known Brisbane wedding venue, 29 Murray Street, Wilston.
Pat's wedding dress was made by Ivy Wallace a well-known seamstress and children’s clothing designer in Brisbane from about the mid-1920s until the early 1960s whose family’s links to Queensland reach back to her paternal and maternal grandparents who had settled in the State from at least the time of its separation from New South Wales in 1859.
References to Miss Wallace in the Courier Mail and an entry in the Queensland Companies Index, indicate that she ran a dressmaking (or related) business trading under the name I. M. Wallace Pty. Ltd. Between 1941 and 1949 Miss Wallace was listed in the post office directory as a dressmaker at 151 Queen Street.
The George family have been actively engaged in the Queensland fruit and vegetable industry for over 80 years and four generations. Originally from Lebanon, Peter George Jitani and his wife Waled initially settled in the northern N.S.W. tow n of Casino where Waled gave birth to children, Peter, Joyce, Simon, Joe, Keith, Mary and Bill George.
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H50013
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