Creation Date

1970s

Description

Blouse: Flower patterned blouse (jacket) from the 1970s. The blouse is heavy woven cotton. It is short sleeved. The blouse is white with pink, red, yellow, and blue flowers and green and blue leaves. The collar is triangular with a cream crocheted scallop trim. There are 3 large pink clear plastic closure buttons. The sleeves are gathered at the top shoulder center and at the cuff. There is a 1 7/8" wide sleeve cuff with a 1/4" wide cream crocheted scallop trim. The blouse is waist length and has a 1 7/8" wide band around the waist. There is a diagonal breast dart and 2 darts in the back. Condition - Excellent.

Donor writes "made by my best friend, Linda McBee of Cannon Falls and given to me. Made of cotton, with crocheted trim. Trim made by Linda. We shared our patterns and our clothing. We wore this jacket with scoop-neck tee shirts we stitched from enclosed pattern and bell-bottom slacks that we also sewed, or bell-bottomed blue jeans. The look was very similar to the pattern cover."

Two scanned photographs of pattern pictures are included with the donor form.

Geographic Notes

Cannon Falls/Goodhue County/MN/USA