Description
This is a deadstock darling 1950s or early 1960s cotton blouse in a Victorian-era, late 1800s riverside landscape novelty print. The lightweight, plain weave cotton is aqua blue with accents of purple, orange, and leaf green. The southern pastoral print features people fishing, farming, driving a horse and carriage, and strolling, plus houses, trees, steamboats, and wells. A row of pearly plastic buttons closes the blouse in front, below the V-shaped split in the rounded collar panel. The blouse has short sleeves and a banded hem, with tiny gathers adding a bit of fullness to the shape just above the band in back. I believe that the top should have a slightly boxy fit when worn, since there are no bust darts. Unworn with its original hangtag and paper size tag, this 1950s-60s novelty print blouse is in excellent to mint condition. The blouse is labeled size 34, or approximately a modern small.
Size: S. Labeled size 34.
- Bust: 39 inches flat, to fit a bit loosely for approx. 34-37.
- Waist measured at top of banded panel: 32 inches flat, to fit up to 30 a bit loosely.
- Length from back of neck to hem: 18 inches.
- Underarm to hem length: 9.5 inches.
- Sleeve: 6.5 inches long with 12-inch flat opening.
- Shoulder to shoulder: 14.75 inches.
- Label: Converse and Co Inc. Cameo Fabric manufacturer’s label plus union label
