{"product_id":"small-constellation-imported-from-the-philippines-1950s-60s-embroidered-cotton-vest","title":"Small Constellation · Handmade in the Philippines 1950s Embroidered Cotton Baby Vest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCotton · hand-embroidered star trail · scalloped picot trim · imported from the Philippines · 1950s-60s · 25cm length flat · fits newborn to three months · excellent condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeven small stars fall in a loose diagonal line from the collarbone to the waist, each one worked in a different pastel, pink, blue, yellow, as if someone shook a handful of thread and let it land where it wanted.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe tag at the neck says imported from Philippines, all cotton, pencilled with a small batch number beneath, the same printed claim that dressed a generation of infants through the middle of last century. Cottage embroiderers worked pieces like this one at home, paid by the piece, sending the finished garments abroad through department stores that never printed a maker's name, only a country. She is a 1950s-60s vest, sister in construction to pieces already in this archive, but dressed in her own particular sky.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePicot trim runs the full length of the front placket and both armholes, finished raw rather than turned, the same scalloped wave used throughout this label's work. Two small frosted buttons close the front through worked buttonholes, and the star trail continues past them to the hem, six-pointed, straight-stitched, unrepeated in exact spacing from side to side.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44166005457030,"sku":null,"price":70.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3515.jpg?v=1784269285","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/products\/small-constellation-imported-from-the-philippines-1950s-60s-embroidered-cotton-vest","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}