Woman’s shirt

Shirt with a straight silhouette, 'body' (to the waist). Sewn from three panels. The sleeve is made from two parts, tapered at the bottom, with an insert sewn along the base, decorated at the top with 'puff stitches' (8 cm long). The sleeve and insert are sewn with a double 'stem stitch.' The body and inserts are gathered at the neckline into small pleats using the 'sewing to the collar' technique. The neckline is round with a 28 cm slit in the center front, finished with a narrow band. The shirt is decorated with black and red floral ornaments. The insert has two parallel stripes: a wider one (2.5 cm) of a garland of stylized poppies with leaves and branches, and a narrower one (1.8 cm) of two interwoven broken lines. The bottom of the sleeve is decorated with a 1.2 cm wide openwork stripe of 'single bar,' above which is a stripe of two interwoven broken lines. The neckline band has a narrow single-color cross-stitch chain (red threads) and a wider black and red border stripe (0.6 cm) embroidered with 'nabiruvannya' or 'surface' on small pleats parallel to the band. The underarm area is framed with two 'single bar' stripes. Legend: The shirt was made and used in the family of Skrynnyk Kateryna Oleksandrivna in the village of Okhrimivka (Yefremivka), Vovchansk District, Kharkiv Oblast (formerly Vovchansk County, Kharkiv Governorate) until 1958, when it was purchased by the museum.