Woman’s shirt

Shirt 'to the hem' (cut-off), the bodice sewn from six panels (bodice from finer, hem from coarser canvas). Straight silhouette. The sleeve is straight, one-piece with a gusset, gathered at the bottom into small folds and finished with a cuff (2.5 cm wide), decorated at the edge with small loops. The upper part of the sleeve and bodice are gathered near the neckline into dense folds using the 'sewing to the collar' technique. The neckline is oval with a central slit on the front (29 cm long), finished with a narrow cuff with two slit loops at the edges for a ribbon. The slit at the bottom is hemstitched. The shirt is decorated with 'white on white' embroidery in a geometric-floral pattern. In the upper part of the sleeve, four enclosed swastika signs with inscribed diamonds, followed by a horizontal stripe of floral pattern, framed on both sides by straight lines with rhythmically repeated half-flowers and transparent squares. The entire sleeve field is filled with diagonal stripes of broken lines with dots at the corners. The cuff is decorated with an embroidered pattern composed of a broken line with diamonds in the recesses. The hem is decorated with two narrow stripes of openwork, with diagonal stylized branches, half-enclosed in rectangles, and half-flowers between them. The connecting seams of the hem (6 cm high) are decorated with hemstitching. Legend: Found during an expedition by the Kharkiv Historical Museum. Creator — Feodosia Fedorivna Prykhodko.