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Children's Collections
Playthings ~ Clothing
Girl's Dress
Cotton: appliquéd
Label: "Julie Tennant, Dallas"
American, early 1990s
Gift of Mary Dutton Boehm, 94.38.7
20th century children's clothing is continually striving to be novel, cute or charming to adult eyes. Here, a bite taken from a watermelon slice forms the neck opening.Today, children are dressed more and more like adults, or perhaps it is the adults who have adopted the more casual comfort previously associate with children's dress. One need only look at the scaled down versions of the same outfits sold at The Gap and Baby Gap to see this trend.
