Women's pencil skirt in silk and cotton
Europeana Fashion — National Museum of World Cultures Foundation

Women's pencil skirt in silk and cotton

Unknown artist

Fashion Illustration
CC0 — Public Domain
Europeana Fashion — National Museum of World Cultures Foundation

Woven and worn by women, for their own use, probably during festivities that are part of transitional rites where the cloth also functions as a status symbol. Such cloths were used in this way until ca. 1925.

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