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Petticoat

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Doll's petticoat of off-white cotton. Wide waistband which fastens with a single mother-of-pearl button. Skirt is gauged to waistband and has a horizontal seam about halfway down. Below seam, skirt has four horizontal tucks and a hem turned up to outside; below hem is a knife-pleated ruffle with scalloped hem, the pleats topstitched with a chain-stitch machine parallel to scallops.

2026.16.014.4

Genesee Country Village and Museum

Doll Clothes

Doll

Petticoat

Female

Longcloth

Cotton

White

1890 - 1910

19th Century

20th Century

9-1/8 in

10 in waist

Griffin, Irene Drury

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