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Woman's Drawers
Woman's Drawers

Woman's Drawers

Clothing MakerMade by Unknown
Dateabout 1895-1905
MediumMachine-stitched cotton
DimensionsPrimary Dimensions (length): 26 1/2in. (67.3cm)
ClassificationsCostume
Credit LineGift of Klaudia Ockert Steidle Shepard and Joy Steidle Graeub
DescriptionWhite cotton split drawers, gathered into a narrow waist yoke, which closes at the back on a drawstring. The legs are each gathered into a band of eyelet embroidery, and end in a 3 1/4-inch flounce with scalloped eyelet embroidery at the bottom.
Object number2001.7.2
MarkingsNoneNotesHistorical Note: Katharine Anna Klauder married Charles Ockert, president of the Ockert Safe Company of New Haven, Connecticut, in 1901.
Subject Terms
    On View
    Not on view
    Front of chemise
    Mary Jerusha Bulkeley
    1865
    Gift of Klaudia Ockert Steidle Shepard and Joy Steidle Graeub. © 2009 The Connecticut Historica…
    Katharine Anna Klauder
    about 1905
    2002.47.2c
    Eugenia Wealthy Hathaway
    about 1880-1895
    Gift of Klaudia Ockert Steidle Shepard and Joy Steidle Graeub, 2001.7.4a-b, Connecticut Histori…
    Katharine Anna Klauder
    about 1901-1905
    Gift of Mrs. Ethel Rosebrooks Larkin and Mrs. Ruth C. Waterman, 1974.114.1.3, Connecticut Histo…
    Alta Harriett Farr
    1885
    Woman's Drawers
    Unknown
    about 1885-1900
    Woman's Wedding Drawers
    Minnie Tatem Satterlee
    1893
    Front of chemise
    Julia P. Rogers
    about 1858
    Woman's Drawers
    Helen Woodward
    about 1892
    Woman's Drawers
    Unknown
    about 1880-1890