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Pair of Cantonese opera shoes with leather soles and pink silk uppers. On the sides are three circles of coiled wire with domed brass ornaments at the centre, four domed brass ornaments, and on a fabric flap on the heel. On the pointed tongue is one domed brass ornament, an orange and green pompom and a blue pompom. On the toe is attached a grey silk (?) thread tassel. Just above the sole is a layer of blue fabric. Cotton lining and insole. Purple fabric edging.
Skirt with a blue-black waistband that closes with ties, below which is a band of off-white fabric, a band of dark blue fabric with light blue batik geometric pattern, a band of solid dark blue fabric over which is sewn a band of red fabric with segments of multicoloured embroidery, and a band of white fabric at the hem. Below the waist, the skirt material is pleated.
Ecru tablecloth with embroidered designs. On the front are fu dog and cherry blossom motifs in silver, blue, pink and mauve. There are glass eyes, white fur and tin reflectors. Three edges are lined with silver braid on deep pink ground. The top edge and back is lined with natural-coloured cotton.
Pair of Cantonese opera shoes, the leather sole shaped to simulate very small shoe, with wooden "shoe-horn" attached at heel to provide actual foot support, hidden under silk upper and attached cotton cuff. Upper: scroll design, silver sequins on white ground edged with black cord all on red ground, with scattered purple sequins. The off-white cotton cuffs each have an off-white cotton rectangle at the front with a loop attached on either side near the top on part a, and two loops at the top on part b. Balance of cuff, ecru cotton. Loops may have served to hold cord to keep cuff in place around foot. Cotton insole.
The first piece (part a) is a woman's apron made from a square of multi-coloured textile with yellow stripes and a red jacquard over-design of flowers and leaves on a dark purple background. Gathered onto a waistband made of multi-coloured braid that has a main design consisting of a flower pattern starting with red at the centre, then yellow, and green bordered by a red paired diagonal line and four dot patterned border at either side on a black background. Waistband is unfinished on the ends. Narrow hems at edges. The second piece (part b) is an apron tie made from a length of machine-embroidered rayon ribbon and having a main design consisting of red, blue, purple, and green flowers on an off-white background. Apron tie is unfinished on the ends.
Rectangular pink panel edged with a green border and tin reflectors. The back lining is white cotton with a pair of cotton ties sewn at one end.
Long, rectangular textile of thin, tie-dyed cotton. The outer border of the fabric has been dyed red, while the rectangular centre is a deep blue. Both the border and the centre panel are covered in geometric and curvilinear patterns in white and yellow; patterns are comprised of small, yellow and white, square, outline-like shapes, with the centres showing the ground colour. Circular areas of red dye evenly spaced throughout the blue centre also feature designs with small white squares.
Long, narrow gray-brown bag. The bag is made of machine-made cotton fabric and hand-stitched on two sides with an opening at one end. There is a flour company label on inside and a Cantonese opera company label on outside in Chinese characters.
Long thin band with floral pattern in purple and white on green ground. The band is padded, roughly machine stitched and bound on three sides with black bias tape.
Bright pink collar of fine hemp with brass frog closure. There is blue braid and white trim around the edges. The back lining is white cotton.