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Man's nightshirt, hand- and machine-sewn cotton with pearl and cotton-covered buttons, Great Britain, 1874. This cotton nightshirt is a longer version of a man's shirt. It has a small stand collar fastened with a pearl button, a front placket closed with
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Man's nightshirt, hand- and machine-sewn cotton with pearl and cotton-covered buttons, Great Britain, 1874. This cotton nightshirt is a longer version of a man's shirt. It has a small stand collar fastened with a pearl button, a front placket closed with one buttons and cuffs each fastened with a button. In addition it has slits up each side to allow for ease of movement. These were often reinforced with gussets. This nightshirt is marked in ink with the wearers name. This helped maids and laundresses identify them when doing the laundry. The marking was either done in ink using a slanting, Italian style of writing, or embroidered in silk thread. Cotton, with pearl and cotton-covered buttons, hand- and machine-sewn.
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Title: Man's nightshirt, hand- and machine-sewn cotton with pearl and cotton-covered buttons, Great Britain, 1874. This cotton nightshirt is a longer version of a man's shirt. It has a small stand collar fastened with a pearl button, a front placket closed with
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Man's nightshirt, hand- and machine-sewn cotton with pearl and cotton-covered buttons, Great Britain, 1874.
This cotton nightshirt is a longer version of a man's shirt.
It has a small stand collar fastened with a pearl button, a front placket closed with one buttons and cuffs each fastened with a button.
In addition it has slits up each side to allow for ease of movement.
These were often reinforced with gussets.
This nightshirt is marked in ink with the wearers name.
This helped maids and laundresses identify them when doing the laundry.
The marking was either done in ink using a slanting, Italian style of writing, or embroidered in silk thread.
Cotton, with pearl and cotton-covered buttons, hand- and machine-sewn.
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