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Pinafore
Object/Artifact
Pinafore of brown ground cotton printed with tiny resist asterisk shapes. Edged with bias brown print stripe fabric. Machine seams, hand hemmed. Simple folded rectangle, opens in back with selvage finish. One brown-rim inkwell button and buttonhole. 26” fabric width, 16.5” long.
G90.076
Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection
1860 - 1890
User Age: Child Gender: Neutral
American
Coveralls
child
ground cotton
cotton
asterisk
machine seam
inkwell button