Name/Title
PetticoatEntry/Object ID
G2008.062Description
Entirely hand stitched white cotton petticoat of moderate fullness. The double-scalloped hem is worked all around over the two side-front seams; the back seam was made after the embroidery was completed; the continuity of the design there is excellent. A grape-vine design is worked in white cotton broderie anglaise with additional lines of buttonhole stitch and stem stitch. The design is enlarged and elaborated in a wide flaring section in the front panel, from the waist to the hem. Mounted on a cotton waistband with gauffering, less fullness in the front. One MOP button at the back opening. One seam has carefully butted selvages where the hem embroidery is worked; above there it becomes a standard seam with a running stitch that becomes slightly coarser as it rises. The other seam has one selvage butted against the other’s fold, turning into a standard overcast seam with increasingly coarser stitching toward the top. The back seam is carefully worked over the embroidery and coarser at the top- it is not entirely clear whether a panel was removed. The top of the skirt had a 2-inch strip of coarser cloth added but the skirt was reset to be shorter; remains of stitching on the edge suggest it originally had been inserted into the waistband.Collection
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume CollectionLexicon
Search Terms
petticoat, youth, hand stitched, cotton, scalloped hem, embroidered, broderie anglaise, recycled
