The donor of this dress wore it while she was attending Christian Female College (later Columbia College) in Columbia, Missouri, in 1929. She had purchased it a shop in Memphis, Tennessee, because, as she said, "dresses went down that year." She also wore it to afternoon teas and tea dances at the neighboring University of Missouri. Exhibited in Suiting Everyone: The Democratization of Clothing in America from 1974 to 1979.
