Maureen Connolly’s Poodle Dress

White sleeveless dress with a collar and eight buttons down the front. Dress is made from a synthetic cotton-polyester blend fabric. Along the bottom of the skirt there are six areas of "cut-outs" each featurinig a fuzzy, textured poodle with rhinestone eyes and ribbon collars in mesh circles. There are two similar poodles on each side of the upper chest.

Tinling recalls a description of Connolly’s youthful charm by Punch writer Alison Adburgham: “Touching, reassuring… this girl of eighteen—already at the pinnacle of her world—should find delight in little things…in furry poodles with sequin eyes; in tiny bows fashioned as teeny rackets…"