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What is the Australian Dress Register?
The Australian Dress Register is a collaborative, online project about dress with Australian provenance pre-1975. This includes men's, women's and children's clothing ranging from the special occasion to the everyday. Museums and private collectors are encouraged to research their garments and share the stories and photographs while the information is still available and within living memory. The Register encourages people to consider their collections very broadly and share what they know about members of their community, what they wore and life in the past. This provides access to a world wide audience while keeping their garments in their relevant location. More
Feature garment
Barn's Family dress
Brown print on cream cotton fabric, long gathered skirt on high waist. Centre of front bodice pleated. Long puffed sleeves gathered to wrist band. Round neckline. Piping is used to stiffen the centre front, at the centre back fastening and on the edge of all bodice seams. The buttons at ... More
Themes: Everyday wear, Special occasion
Feature video
Who, what, where, why, when? - A contributor's perspective
What the Australian Dress Register means to Justine Malinowski: "it's a tool to allow people to research what is out there in other people's collections"
Feature garment
Ah Bong's silk shirt
A pale blue grey silk Chinese shirt with detachable collar belonging to Mr. Ah Bong, a Chinese man employed by S.M. Abikhair as a hawker to travel around the Albury district selling haberdashery to farms and communities during the early 1920s. It is beautifully made of fine quality silk, and characteristic in style and manufacture ... More
