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This house dress or dressing gown is constructed from cotton patterned with both block and roller printed designs in a scrolling floral vine repeat with pink flowers and blue leaves on a beige-colored, striped ground. Lined in a contrasting, dark brown-colored ground cotton print of small cream-colored diamond diaper pattern. Sleeves are typical of the period, an exaggerated "leg o' mutton" style set into the armseyes with numerous small pleats. Yoke neckline. Opening down center front.
dressing gowns
block printing (relief printing process)
cotton (textile)
floral patterns
serpentine (shape)
Gown, Dressing
Women's clothing
Cotton
Hand Stitched
Transfer Printed
Floral
Serpentine
Gown, Dressing
Unknown
1927.324
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