{"product_id":"small-wingspan-dovlee-1950s-smocked-cotton-baby-wrap","title":"Small Wingspan · Dovlee 1950s Smocked Cotton Baby Wrap","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eCombed cotton · smocked honeycomb yoke · dolman sleeves · dovlee, tagged 6 months · single snap and satin bow · 1950s · 24cm length flat · fits newborn to six months · well-loved condition\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurn the collar over and the smocking reads like a row of honeycomb cells, each one drawn tight by a single thread somebody counted by hand, row after row, until the fullness of the yoke gathered into this neat, elastic geometry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe label at the neck says simply dovlee, six months, no city, no country, nothing more. A second tag, stitched into the seam allowance, promises AMC, your mark of quality, WFL-11403, a manufacturer's own reassurance rather than any government registry. Neither name turns up in the usual archives, which is not unusual for babywear of this kind: small manufacturers who dressed a generation of infants and then simply closed their doors, leaving the garments to do the remembering. She is a 1950s wrap, a dolman shape and smocked yoke built to go on and off easily over a squirming child rather than to be admired on a hanger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe body is cut in one piece with the sleeves, a true batwing dolman that widens from a 3cm neckline drop into a 33cm sweep at the hem, so the whole thing lies nearly flat and triangular when opened out. A single snap, its two halves meeting invisibly under a small satin ribbon bow at the throat, closes the wrap through the hand-smocked honeycomb pleating rather than a plain placket. Every raw edge, cuffs, hem and neckline alike, is finished in a fine pink scallop stitch instead of being turned and hemmed, a faster, more confident technique than the folded hems used on her more formal cousins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44165930877062,"sku":null,"price":75.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3455copy.jpg?v=1784266742","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/products\/small-wingspan-dovlee-1950s-smocked-cotton-baby-wrap","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}