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Materials: White plain weave cotton, white cotton cord.
Provenance: Deaccessioned from a
Massachusetts museum.
Condition: Excellent, one pea
size brown spot.
Measurements:
W, 26.5"; L, 38.5"; Hem C, 106".
Comments: Hand sewn from
materials at hand - perhaps cotton sheeting and clothesline. Stitches
are fine quality and regular. The petticoat was made from two pieces of
cotton; the seam joins are selvage to selvage and nearly invisible.
Above the top row of cording is a substantial tuck which shortened the
petticoat's original length by four inches. Utilitarian, every day
garments are more difficult to find than their fine and fancy cousins.
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