Blouse
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Woman's blouse made of vertical panels of embroidered fabric alternating with hand-made lace. The embroidered panels are cross stitched with rayon floss in geometric designs on a solid field, blue and orange predominating. The shoulders each have three vertical embroidered panels, from left to right: a design consisting of mint green squares in a zig zags in between red zig zag lines pattern; a design consisting of orange octagons outlined by white and having a blue eight-petalled flower within, each petal of which has a white spot; and a design consisting of diamond shapes outlined by mint green and having a red star-cross shape within over an orange lattice work pattern on a dark blue background. The middle of the shirt has the same three vertical embroidered panels from left to right. Square neckline. Front, and back are identical.
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