FASHION-DETECTIVE

Miss Geddes (attributed to) (decorator),
Sheet music, fancy dress, 1907
This charming fancy-dress costume was acquired
from a private collector in 1974 as part of a group of
nineteenth-century garments and accessories. The
following information was recorded at the time:
‘This dress was worn to a fancy-dress ball
at Mena House, Cairo, in 1907 by a Miss
Geddes. The dress is accompanied by three
photographs of the owner wearing it and a
cutting from the Egyptian Gazette of
20 February 1907 describing the ball’.
While the newspaper cutting is now lost, the
photograph bears this handwritten annotation:
‘1907, under the orange blossom, Bloemfontein
(South Africa)’.
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