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Of softest aqua-blue silk satin, the two-piece set features a top with gently flared shaping, slightly dropped shoulders, and open front which fastens with soutache loops, trimmed with burgundy silk edging and soutache, and matching pants with snap closures at either side of the waist. Generally excellent. Included is a vintage photograph of Shirley wearing the costume, as well as a framed color print of Shirley wearing these, with the imprint of James Doolittle (photographer) of Los Angeles. Ching-Ching (Shirley Temple) wore the pajamas in the 1936 film "Stowaway", notably in the bedtime scene as she realizes that Uncle Tommy is now officially her dad, and relates the Chinese proverb that "a child without parents is like a ship without a rudder", and again at the conclusion of the film while singing "That's What I Want for Christmas".