Child's green gingham dress and pink pinafore

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A child’s (a) green gingham dress and (b) pink pinafore. The cotton blend dress features a white and green gingham pattern with hand painted acrylic pink roses. The roses are arranged around the fabric in groups of one to four and are surrounded by piled synthetic fibers piled together, creating tiny 3-dimensional dots. The dress features a 1.5” band collar, made from one panel of fabric that is trimmed with white machine-made tatted lace. There is a front yoke, also made from one panel of fabric that is seamed to the back yoke at the sides. The puff sleeves are one piece of fabric, that have been seamed at the inner arm. They have been gathered at the shoulder and at the 1.125” cuff. The cuff is trimmed with white machine-made tatted lace that has been attached by hand.

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