Pinafore

Name/Title

Pinafore

Entry/Object ID

G90.076

Description

Pinafore of brown ground cotton printed with tiny resist asterisk shapes. Edged with bias brown print stripe fabric. Machine seams, hand hemmed. Simple folded rectangle, opens in back with selvage finish. One brown-rim inkwell button and buttonhole. 26” fabric width, 16.5” long.

Collection

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Made/Created

Date made

1860 - 1890

Notes

User Age: Child Gender: Neutral

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

American

Lexicon

Search Terms

Coveralls, child, ground cotton, cotton, asterisk, machine seam, inkwell button