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Apron
Clothing/Dress/Costume
Hand stitched pink cotton girl’s apron. Very widely flaring gored skirt with rounded corners. Center extends up into small bib with rounded corners. Narrow waistband on top of remaining skirt, extending into ties. Edges embellished with small scrolled border worked in white braid with picot edges. Twill tape stay connecting the waistband-ties behind the bib.
G2000.054
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
Female
Cotton
Pink
1860 - 1870
User Age: Child Gender: Female
American
apron
girl
child
hand stitched
cotton scrolled border
braid
picot
twill tape