17.11.8

Dress, Graduation

1940

Joyce Pream High School Graduation Dress Class of 1940. White Lace Short-Sleeved Dress and Scarf. Material: textile. (a) Dress. Size: 17" x 51". Description: white lace, floor length, short sleeve dress, lacy shawl collar; dropped waistline. (b) Slip. Size: 11" x 44". Description: blue silk under garment sets off white lace dress, narrow shoulder straps; four metal snaps on side. (c ) Scarf. Size: 4" x 114". Description: blue silk scarf.

Dress made by Aunt Nellie (Hodgkins) Pream for her daughter, Joyce Pream. Joyce Pream wore this dress to her graduation in 1940 from Waldorf High School. (Joyce Pream and Dorothy (Hodgkins) Gigeay were cousins.) Joyce Jeanette Pream Born in Vivian, Waseca, Minnesota, USA on 28 Apr 1916 to George A Pream and Nellie Hodgkins. Joyce Jeanette Pream married Leon Elmo Fisher and had 1 child. She passed away on 3 Apr 1971 in Mankato, Blue Earth, Minnesota, USA.