White cotton lace blouse with pintucks and embroidery

A white cotton lace blouse with pintucks and embroidery. The blouse has a two inch wide band collar made of two bands of crochet chain stitch and bands of cotton. Three pieces of thin metal boning encased in cotton are sewn at the interior of the collar. Two inserted bands of crochet chain stitch are machine sewn to the center chest of the blouse. The blouse has elbow length sleeves, twelve pintucks grouped in fours run down the length of the sleeves. The sleeves have cuffs made of four pin tucks flanked by two bands of crochet chain stich, matching the bands seen on the collar and the front of the chest. A gusset is sewn at each armscye. An inch and a half band of floral lace is machine sewn on each side of the blouse starting at the shoulder seam and ending two and a half inches above the hem. Machine embroidery of clusters of grapes is sewn along the center front panel between the lace bands. The blouse opens in the center back with seven shell buttons on the proper left side which align with seven buttonholes. Eight pin tucks are sewn on each side of the center back opening clustered in groups of four. The center back panel is five inches shorter than the front panel. The blouse is machine sewn, unlabeled, and unlined.

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