item details
NameFancy dress costume, 'Mustardseed'
ProductionSilvia Callister; maker/artist; circa 1940; Carterton
Classificationcostumes (character dress), shirts
Materialscotton, metal, rubber
Registration NumberPC002851
Credit lineGift of Mrs Shirley Burns, 1983
Overview
This child's fancy dress costume consisting of a bright yellow hat, bodice with wings and shorts was made to represent 'Mustardseed', a character in Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream. Mustardseed was a fairy servant to Titania, the Queen of the Fairies. It was worn to the annual Carterton Fancy Dress Ball in about 1940.