Hi Wiggy
I have blown this photo up many times. There are no zippers used in the making of this dress. It's probably hand made. The front may look like it has a zipper but it isn't.
If the little girl was in her Sunday best then we would be able to make a better comparison to the photos you added, but she's not. The only thing I can say accurately is the clothes by children whose families may be well off are very different to the clothes worn by children who lived in the poverty of country NSW. My family lived in country NSW.
I was 13 in 1971 and we wouldn't be caught dead in those clothes.They are nothing like what we wore in the 70's; not to mention we would recognize the people; plus it would be in colour.
I know you are trying to help but I closed the topic for a reason (or at least I thought I did) and that reason was 'no one was listening'. I have a lot of photographic evidence that dates the clothes prior 1930. The only dress I can find in my photos that belonged to Mum's side of the family, that is floor length, is the one of Elsie which you kindly restored. Elsie was born in 1880. She's probably aged around 20.
When people started commenting on the clothes I decided to go through the hundreds of photos I inherited because what they were saying didn't gel with my knowledge and recollections.
Then there is another photo I posted to be restored of the Jeffrey/Stephenson family. I posted it to before I got the DPI correct. I can date that to 1901 or before. My great grandmother, in the pale dress, died in 1901 and judging by the age of her baby the date would be 1898.
I can't work out what the fence is made of in the photo we are discussing. It looks like iron. If the photo was dated in the 1940's I would have expected barbed wire, wood or corrugated iron.
We're going to Inverell over Easter to visit a cousin. I'll ask if he can remember any fences similar to the one in the photo.
If I'm wrong I'm not hurting anyone. You may be correct 99% of the time but I don't believe you are this time so please leave me in my delusion.
I appreciate your time, effort and concern but I don't care to enter into any discussion on this topic again.
regards
Jan
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