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Petticoat
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Petticoat, entirely hand stitched, made of white cotton with a 14” band of diagonal grid quilting at the hem with straight rows at the very bottom. Deep tuck above the quilting. Gauffered onto a narrow jean waistband cut with a point in the CF, topstitched CF seam, long twill tape ties. Name inked on CF “C P Hayes”?
G2009.056
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
1840 - 1850
petticoat
quilted hem
hand stitched
cotton
tuck
gauffered
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