DAISY beige

Repeat ca. 5 x 4 cm. Width 145 cm. 

Woman’s shortgown 1780-1800
Chester County (Pennsylvania) Historical Society 0076 CLF 186A
Printed Cotton, (2 or 3 shades of) brown on off-white ground.
The printed fabric is used for this shortgown, which is lined with off-white linen and have sleeve facings in another print, is typical of 1780-90 with small flowers and a striped ground. The shortgown was an everyday garment worn mostly by Quakers and German-Americans, but by many others as well. It was a practical working garment, nearly always made of printed cotton or linen. It had a very simple cut, in one piece, without shoulder seam and sleeves cut with the body."
Litterture: Fitting and proper Sharon Ann Burnston 2002

In Swedish collections there are also shortgowns made of silk, which suggests that in Scandinavia the garment was used by bourgeois women.
The small patterned prints were used for clothing as well as furnishing as linings, coverlets, and bed quilts.