Skirt

Skirt

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Long, embroidered and pleated silk Chinese skirt. Skirt formed of two halves which fasten together to form a wrap-around waistband of sand-colored cotton or linen weave. Halfway down and around most of both halves, ribbons weave vertically down inside the pleats until just under the woven horizontal band. Each part of skirt has one end not marked in this way. The end worn on the inside of the wrap is plain gold silk. The outside of the wrap is gold silk bordered on three sides by the woven blue bands.

Gold-patterned underlayer, overlaid with vertical black bands along pleats. Bands are in turn overlaid horizontally at bottom by woven band of blue with green and white designs and an embroidered band of blue and golds.

A panel of unknown description was removed from between the woven bands in front. There is no hem. Inner trim is psychedelic salmon and badly tenting. Partial fading of horizontal bands indicates pleats may have, at one time, been reversed.

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Qing (1644-1912) to modern-period China

Silk

Eleanor Johnson

Asia

China