#284

Parade Costume Made for Shirley Temple for the 1936 Film "Poor Little Rich Girl"
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Comprising cream woolen uniform jacket with gold soutache braid and brass buttons, gold epaulets with metallic fringe, red twill pants with white stripes, ivory satin-covered leather belt with brass buckle, and with firm-sided helmet with ivory satin cover and black leather trim, trimmed with metallic emblems and red bristle crest. Along with red, white and blue wooden baton. Three vintage photographs are included depicting Barbara Barry (Shirley Temple) wearing a similar majorette parade costume which was the final version worn in the "I Love a MilItary Man" sequence of the 1936 film "Poor Little Rich Girl". This present example, an alternate designed for her possible use in the film, has identical helmet (excepting color of crest feathers) and belt.