{"product_id":"the-white-hours-antique-cotton-lawn-nightgown-with-hemstitching","title":"The White Hours · Antique 1910s Monogrammed White Cotton Nightgown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSturdy white cotton · crosshatch weave against the light · pale blue padded-satin monogram · crossed-band neckline with drawn-thread openwork · hand hemstitching · antique trousseau piece · 1910s–1920s · L 111cm flat · fits AU 10–14 · very good condition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt the chest, in pale blue, someone's initials: a hand-worked monogram crowned with a little spray of flowers. The letters are raised in padded satin stitch, each one first outlined and filled to lift it from the ground, a method borrowed straight from the trousseau linens of the period, where a woman's initials were the mark that a thing was hers and had been made ready for her. The neckline answers it: two hand-finished bands cross at the V and fall into points, edged with drawn-thread openwork, a small formality on a garment meant only for sleep.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn-thread work is exactly what it sounds like: threads are counted and withdrawn from the weave, and the ones that remain are gathered and knotted into open, latticed borders with a hemstitch, so the decoration is subtracted from the cloth rather than added to it. Hold the gown to the window and the ground weave declares itself too, a fine even crosshatch of warp and weft with the light caught in the grid of it. This is not a wisp of boudoir cotton but honest cloth with the body of good household linen, the kind chosen for a trousseau in the 1910s or 1920s, when a bride's linens were sewn, monogrammed and counted before they were ever slept in. It was bought to be worn nightly, boiled on washday, wrung, line-dried and worn again for years, and that thrift and good judgement is precisely why the gown is still here, sturdy long past its century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"caitiedid","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44149778186374,"sku":null,"price":240.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0657\/5960\/8966\/files\/DSC_3214.jpg?v=1783581952","url":"https:\/\/checkout.caitiedid.shop\/products\/the-white-hours-antique-cotton-lawn-nightgown-with-hemstitching","provider":"caitiedid","version":"1.0","type":"link"}