Fancy dress costume

A costume for the jazz age

This roughly sewn olive green and cream stripped fancy dress costume is believed to have been worn by Beatrice Wood (1889-1987). The costume is similar in style to a Weldon's paper pattern for a fancy dress costume called 'Jazz' (pattern 61331). See GH021412.

Beatrice Wood

Beatrice Wood grew up in Christchurch. She studied painting at the Canterbury College of Art under the tutorage of Sydney Lough Thomson and Margaret Stoddart, after completing finishing school in England. She returned to England at the outbreak of the First World War, and became a volunteer ambulance driver. In 1922 she married Thomas Edward Youd Seddon, the son of New Zealand's former Prime Minister, Richard Seddon. She continued to paint and exhibit throughout her lifetime.