White cotton lace blouse with pintucks and embroidery

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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 white cotton lace blouse with pintucks and embroidery. The blouse has a two inch wide band collar made of two bands of crochet chain stitch and bands of cotton. Three pieces of thin metal boning encased in cotton are sewn at the interior of the collar. Two inserted bands of crochet chain stitch are machine sewn to the center chest of the blouse. The blouse has elbow length sleeves, twelve pintucks grouped in fours run down the length of the sleeves. The sleeves have cuffs made of four pin tucks flanked by two bands of crochet chain stich, matching the bands seen on the collar and the front of the chest. A gusset is sewn at each armscye. An inch and a half band of floral lace is machine sewn on each side of the blouse starting at the shoulder seam and ending two and a half inches above the hem.

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