Shirley Temple's Daisy Dress Worn During Opening of "When I Grow Up" in "Curly Top"

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Of delicately textured fine silk in pale daffodil-yellow color, the dress features wide pleats falling from the fitted yoke with V-shaped edging that is repeated on the short puffed sleeves. The dress is trimmed with applique white velvet daisies and leaves. The studio label "4982" is inside the dress. Generally excellent. The costume was worn by the orphan Elizabeth Blair (Shirley Temple) in the 1935 film "Curly Top", during her prelude to the "When I Grow Up" performances, and again in her tap dance song at the end of that performance. The dress was a favorite of Shirley, worn on many private and publicity occasions such as that shown in the photograph here.