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Description: | blouse and skirt; blouse in royal blue, sweetheart neckline with curves of shirring bound in blue; short sleeves over pads; long skirt made of one length of cotton batik printed with wavy lines, /1. Blouse; royal blue cotton; hip length; sweetheart neckline; shoulder pieces each of two strips of cotton with parallel lines of shirring stitches, free edges bound, strips overlapped; front below neckline with similar strips also with shirring stitches and free edges but curved, three strips each side, overlapped with ends forming a zigzag at centre front; one main front, shaped two waist darts, bottom edge curved between darts and between darts and side seams; two backs, square neckline; each back shaped long waist dart extending past armhole; bottom edges curved between darts and between darts and side seams
sleeves: short, one piece, pleated at head, bottom edge with three scallops; stitched into armhole leaving bottom of armhole free
lining: royal blue cotton of lighter weight; made up with main pieces and turned inside out so that there are no raw edges; in sleeve heads pads of cotton pleated over plastic foam
fastening: centre back; blue nylon invisible zip
/2 Skirt; off white cotton batik printed with wavy lines of blue with grid pattern in white following contours of the blue
skirt made using width of cotton from waist to hem; long; one piece with deep tucks at sides giving the appearance of one front and two backs; deep underlap; seam close to right side tuck at back, stitched to upper thigh level, open thereafter; top edges folded over elastic tape to form waistband, so stitched that front and back are smooth and the gathers are at sides
lining: thin royal blue cotton; bagged out with main material, edges of main material mitred
label: printed on selvedge ‘Veritable Wax Imprime 212’ and ‘Unity Wax’,
Accession number: NCMG 2007-58/1-2 | Temporal: | 2006 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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