White cotton nightgown with no buttons jacket and bloomer below knee length

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Description

Jacket-nightgown, cotton, white, no buttons, V shaped neckline, wide with long uneven sleeves, widening at the lower part. Around the neck and all the way down, a separate fabric with cutwork wavy lace at the edges, with daisies, leaves and smaller flowers, with blanket stitch at the edge, while the same lace is found around the sleeves. The bust consists of five separate pieces, three entre-deux of cutwork lace, with flowers and leaves with topstitch, and a wavy line of holes, alternating with nervir stripes. The torso consists of rich fabric with seven rows of nervir on every side of the bust, for approx. 15 cm. All around the hips, wide ruffles of plain fabric. Bloomer below knee length, white with string at the waist. Approx. at knee height, four rows of nervir, followed by entre-deux and cutwork daisies and then ruffles by lace at the edges, with cutwork flow-ers and leaves with topstitch, becoming galloon lace with blanket stitch.

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Keywords

cutwork lace, entre-deux, topstitch, nervir, ruffles, blanket stitch

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