Long blouse for a woman. Fine, loose, plain-woven, single ply fabric with emroidered designs in orange silk thread, possibly artificial, gold thread and small gold metal discs, in a solid rectangle on the shoulders, in rows down the arms and down the front and back, in squares on the lower skirt, and round the bottom hem. Some seams have been oversewn in the same thread. Gathered at the neck, at the front opening of which are two red silk tassles. L. 54"; W. (inc sleeves) 63".
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