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 olive green with accents of orchid purple, coral orange, and greenish-gold. 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
