DRESS

Description: BLUE, LIGHT BLUE AND WHITE CHECKERED DRESS WITH SHORT SLEEVES. SLEEVES AND DICKEY COLLAR HAVE RUFFLED EDGING OF SAME MATERIAL AS DRESS ALONG WITH RIC-RAC TAPE SEWN OVER SEAM. BUTTON AND LOOP OPENING AT BACK OF NECK. STRAIGHT SIDES AND SKIRT. TWO SMALL HOLES IN DICKEY AND SEAM ALONG LEFT HIP IS LOOSE.

History: DRESS BELONGED TO DONOR AS A TEENAGER. DONOR RELATES THAT SHE DID NOT LIKE THE DRESS BECAUSE IT DIDN'T FIT WELL BECAUSE IT WAS BOUGHT FROM A CATALOGUE. THE NAKAYAMA FAMILY WAS ORIGINALLY FROM VANCOUVER BUT MOVED TO COALDALE FOLLOWING THE SECOND WORLD WAR WHEN THEY WERE INTERNED AT SLOCAN CITY IN THE INTERIOR OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BY THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT. THE DONOR'S FATHER, REV. CANON G.G. NAKAYAMA, WAS AN ANGLICAN MINISTER IN VANCOUVER, AND THEN ESTABLISHED THE CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION IN COALDALE IN 1945 WHERE HE SERVED UNTIL 1970. SEE RECORD P19970041001 FOR EXPANDED BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION AND PERMANENT FILE FOR FURTHER HISTORY.