White undergarment with pink ribbon and lace
date: label: Date
content: 1910s - 1920s
name: label: Created by
content: Unidentified
label: Subject of
content: Black Fashion Museum, American, 1979 - 2007
notes: label: Description
content: A white cotton undergarment with pink ribbon and lace. This undergarment possibly used to be a woman’s slip that has been cut into a child’s underdress. Bobbin lace with pink synthetic ribbon has been machine stitched along the top of the garment. The dress is composed of five panels of plain weave cotton - three in the front and two side panels that are seamed together at the center back. There are two machine-stitched darts on the dress – one on either side panel. All the panels, front and back, are sewn to a 1” band of decorative cutwork with eyelet flowers and overcast bars. A pink ribbon made from synthetic material is woven through the cutwork band and is tied in a knot at the center front. Below the band of decorative cutwork are alternating panels of plain weave cotton with pintucks, floral machine lace, and embroidered flowers with cutwork inside the flower. Machine stitched below the alternating panels is another row of bobbin lace that has a pink synthetic ribbon woven through it. The hem of the undergarment features a 4.5" panel of floral machine lace. The two center panels at the back of the skirt have been partially machine stitched together and partially handstitched together. The back construction of the garment mirror’s the front, except there is no alternating panels of plain weave cotton with pintucks, floral machine lace, and embroidered flowers in between the two rows of woven pink ribbon. Two white cotton ribbons are handstitched to the top interior of the dress – one on each side. There is also excess fabric all around the interior top, where the dress was potentially cut from a woman’s slip. The edges have been left raw. The interior of the dress is unlined.
label: Cataloging Notes
content: This project received Federal support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Clothing and dress
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: Black Fashion Museum Collection
label: Classification
content: Clothing - Fashion and Historical
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Black Fashion Museum founded by Lois K. Alexander-Lane
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2007.3.644
objectType: label: Type
content: underdresses
label: Type
content: undergarments
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No known copyright restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: cotton, synthetic ribbon, bobbin lace, and machine lace
label: Dimensions
content: Length: (top to hem) 22 1/2 in (57.2 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: Width: 27 1/2 in. 69.9 cm)