The New York Purchase Sale at Parks-Belk Company advertised in the Concord Tribune, May 9, 1923, included wash dresses. From Sew Historically blog (www.sewhistorically.com/1900s-gingham-wash-dress-as-a-summer-dress/, accessed May 9, 2023), a wash dress was a washable dress, often made of gingham or another cotton fabric.
“If we go on the river or to tennis in the sunshine, the woman is not well dressed who wears a ten-guinea tailor-made cloth, however light, but she who is clad in a cotton which has probably cost a few odd shillings” (Every Woman’s Encyclopaedia, 1910-2).
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