Cotton split-leg drawers with lace trim

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

A pair of cotton split leg drawers with lace trim. The drawers are made from two panels of white cotton for each leg and each leg has four shaping darts - two on each side. The outer darts are 3.5” inches and the inner darts are 4 inches. At the center front is a 9.5” opening that is machine stitched around the opening edge. Each leg is trimmed with two 3” wide panels of ivory machine lace that are composed of two separate bands of machine lace, hand sewn together laterally. The center back is completely open and there are two shaping darts under the waistband, one on each leg, measuring 4.5”. The back waistband closes with a metal hook and eye and about 5.5’” inches below that is a metal snap. There is an interior cotton waistband, and the center split is lined with self-fabric biased tape.

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