1904 Silk blouse
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1902-1905 A blouse in ivory silk.
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The back of the blouse
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A view of the blouse from the side
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Detail of the front of the blouse
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Detail of where the tape holds down gathers at the front waist
Description
The blouse opens down the back and is fastened by five hooks and worked bars on the collar and down the yoke, and three hooks and worked bars below; these last are covered by a folded strip of silk,1″ wide, like a fly front.
The yoke is made of three rows of 1" wide straight-edged machine-made lace with pairs of ¾" wide bias strips of silk, between them, curving concentrically round the neck; they are joined by lines of openwork. The stand collar has another row of the lace with a ½″ wide strip of the silk, cut on the straight, below it, and a folded silk strip round the top, all joined by the openwork.
A frill, 4″ deep, is gathered in to the lower edge of the yoke, with two more rows of gathering below, ⅜" apart. The hem is ⅞″ wide with the openwork along its top, and another row of openwork ¾″ above that.
The blouse front is gathered in under the frill, and 1¾" below the seam there is a set of three rows of gathers, ½" apart, and another set 1¾" below that. The centre 21½" of the lower edge is gathered into 5¼" sewn on to a tape, ⁵⁄₁₆" wide, whose ends, 19" long, tie round the waist to hold in the back.
The back panels are sewn flat under the frill, and 1¼" each side of the centre back opening there are two pin tucks, ¼" apart and another two ¾" further out.
The tops of the sleeves are gathered in under the frill, and 3" below the seam there is a set of three rows of gathers, ½" apart with another set 1½" below them. The lower ends are gathered into cuff bands which have two rows of the 1" wide lace with ¾" of the silk between them and a ⅜" wide strip of folded silk on the ends, all joined by the openwork.
Contemporary illustrations
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Alice Maud Clarke c.1904; she was born in 1880, and worked as an assistant in the drapery department of Pratts in Streatham, London.
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Detail from an advertisement for Samaritaine Paris, in Femina, May 1904
