White linen; 1 button closure at back; buttonhole center front below waist; cotton tape loop inside waist center front; ruffled hem; over ruffle at knee with vertical tucks followed by eyelet insert, horizontal tucks & scalloped hem trimmed with eyelet.
petticoats (underskirts)
linen (material)
Underskirt
Petticoat
Petticoat
Pencil mark inside waist in front ""98"" - repeated below waist ""2169/997""
Original to Codman House (Lincoln, Mass.),
Unknown
Bequest of Dorothy S.F.M. Codman
1969.5643
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