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Description:
Woman’s knee-length underdrawers featuring a gathered frill fastening tie below each knee. More ordinary, cold-weather undergarments like this are rare survivals; fancier examples or those made from lighter-weight white cotton to be worn in warmer temperatures survive in greater numbers in museum collections. This example descended in the Gavin family of West Dummerston, Vermont.

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https://museums.fivecolleges.edu/detail.php?t=objects&type=ext&id_number=HD+2017.31.7

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