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What is the Australian Dress Register?
The Australian Dress Register is a collaborative, online project about dress in New South Wales pre 1945. 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
19th century convict jacket
Convict jacket of parti-coloured black and yellow felted wool. The jacket extends to just below the waist and fastens right front over left with three painted black metal buttons and six hand worked buttonholes. Three buttons are missing. It has a stand collar and long shaped two piece sleeves with ... More
Themes: Uniform
Feature garment
Possum skin cloak
Cloak made of 22 full and one quarter rectangular skins of of the brush tail possum (TRICHOSURUS VULPECULA) and one skin of the grey kangaroo (MACROPUS CANGURU). The skins are laid in four rows of six each, sewn on the skin side, edge to edge, with a very fine cord ... More
Featured garment
Evening dress made by David Jones Limited
Born in Noumea, New Caledonia, in 1900, May Camille Dezarnaulds migrated to Sydney with her family in 1912 and lived in the harbour-side suburb of Double Bay until 1923 when she married the Hon. G.R.W. McDonald, local member for Bungara New South Wales. She purchased this custom-made dress from David Jones, probably to wear as ... More
