Cream blouse with lace collar and pintucks

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A cream blouse with a lace collar and pin tucks. The blouse features a high collar made from one panel of polyester and two rows of floral machine lace that are gathered and sewn to each other, then sewn along the collar’s edge. The front of the blouse is made from one panel of cream-colored polyester. There are two rows of eight pintucks – one on each side. The groups of pintucks are paneled by two 1.25” wide lengths of ruffles. Each sleeve is gathered and sewn into the shoulder. It’s made from one panel of fabric seamed to itself at the inner arm and has a 2.5” wide ruffled cuff. At the hem is a 2.5” wide trim and above the trim is a .25” wide self-fabric drawstring fed through a channel.

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