UCONN HISTORICAL COSTUME & TEXTILE COLLECTION




1930

Skirt


2 piece wrap skirt of beige silk brocade with embroidered borders, floral panels plus spotted flowers forming full hemline borders. Hand appliquéd black satin bands create stripes in the skirt. Fairly good condition. Worn with 1970C 1936.9, a Japanese imported ivory silk hand finished short kimono. Hand embroidered motifs of the same cream silk on the sleeves and body.

From a Chinese Clothing Shop in San Francisco.


Provenance:
Auerbach, Beatrice Fox Hartford, CT.

Construction Label:
hand made



1970C 1930.29