Yellow Linen Dress With Smocked Bodice and Bows Worn by Shirley Temple

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Of fine yellow linen, with pleats falling full length below the elaborately smocked bodice, the smocking on both front and back, and with puffed sleeves and large bows at each shoulder, with original cloth label from Bullock's Wilshire. The dress, a favorite of Shirley, was worn on social and publicity occasions such as her meeting with the Soviet pilots (see #490). Shirley appeared on the front color cover of Photoplay, June 1937, wearing this dress, while blowing bubbles.