American Blouses: Patterns--Colors


Figure 1.--Most patterns were on white or light-colored shirts. I'm not sure how to describe the pattern. This is one of the darker blouses we have found with patterns. We are unsure about the color, but woud guess blue. Here we see an unidentified boy with a pug. We think the bug is a stuffed studio prop. The cabinet card was taken at Docter studio in Mayville, Wisconsin.

Most blouses we have found in the photographic record were solid colors. The vast number of blouses we have found were solid colored, usually white. It is difficuklt to descriminate between white blouses and very-light colored blouses. So we are mnot entirely sure that all the white looking clouses were actually white. Unfortunately the black-and-white photography of the day offers few clues as to the colors used. This makes any treatment of color difficult to assess. As far as we now the pattern blouse were mostly colored patterns on a white blouse, Although we have noted a few patterns on colored blouses. Normally these were white patterns on relatively light-colored blouses. We have not yet found an examples of a dark blouse with white patterns. We can not yet say they did not exist, but we have not yet found examples.










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