Silk Dress and Pinafore Worn by Shirley Temple in the 1937 Film "Wee Willie Winkie"

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Featuring a fine loosely woven tussah silk dress with fitted bodice, set-in waist and yoke, widely flared skirt, pouffed sleeves and unusual matching trim of layered scallops at the collar, sleevelets, and hem, with bands of alternating lace and dimity. Included with the dress is a flowered cotton pinafore with ruffles and pockets which Shirley sometimes wore with the dress, an original petticoat, and a wooden-handled parasol with owl's head carved handle tip. Generally excellent condition, some fabric darkening around the shoulders. The petticoat has the original studio label "8210 Shirley T". Various parasols were used by Priscilla (Shirley) in the film, of which this appears to be one. Two vintage photographs of Shirley wearing the costume are included. The costume, with and without the pinafore, was worn by Shirley Temple in her role of Priscilla Williams in the 1937 film "Wee Willie Winkie", notably in an early scene with Victor McLaglen (Sergeant MacDuff) when she asks "Who ever heard of a soldier named Priscilla?" MacDuff then proclaims her new name will be Wee Willie Winkie and she is now "a full-fledged soldier of the Queen".