{"id":22,"date":"2019-02-20T15:58:06","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/arx340-alsmith\/?p=22"},"modified":"2019-03-24T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-24T20:30:07","slug":"printed-silk-apron-1842","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/silk-aprons\/printed-silk-apron-1842\/","title":{"rendered":"Printed Silk 1842"},"content":{"rendered":"

This printed pink silk apron has scalloped edging and two slit pockets. The ornamented pockets also have multi-colored tassels; the elaborate pocket was quite common for this time. The apron was actually first a scarf and then adapted. This apron would have been worn by a woman in the upper middle class who did not want to appear too flashy, yet wanted to show off her unique style. The top of the apron is also quite small, suggesting that the woman who wore it had a tiny waist (or a very tight corset) and this apron would have only made her waist look smaller. <\/span><\/p>\n

Keeping up proper appearances and selecting in the nineteenth century were of the utmost importance, as Colette explains through Claudine in <\/span>Claudine at School: <\/span><\/i>\u201cI shall put on my blue skirt, with the pleated blouse that shows off my figure, and my apron. Not the big black apron I wear on weekdays with the close-fitting bib (though it\u2019s quite becoming), but the pretty little pale blue embroidered one I wear at home on Sundays.\u201d Claudine decided between numerous elegant aprons she owned to ensure that she wore the most \u201cbecoming\u201d one to impress her schoolmates. Claudine\u2019s friend, by wearing the poorly chosen apron, a \u201cred, embroidered in white\u201d she was actually made to \u201clook paler than ever.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

Though it is unclear whether or not the wearer of the Printed Silk Apron looked \u201cpaler than ever,\u201d it is clear that pairing the correct apron with the correct garment was an essential part of the early nineteenth century women’s and girl\u2019s day. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Colette. \u201cClaudine Goes to School,\u201d in <\/span>The Complete Claudine, <\/span><\/i>1-206<\/span>. <\/span><\/i>New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1976.<\/span><\/p>\n

Buck, Anne M. Victorian<\/em><\/span> Costume.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>New York: Universe Books, 1961, 145.<\/span><\/p>\n

Printed Silk Apron, Historic Clothing Collection, Smith College, Northampton, MA.\u00a02011.8.230.<\/span><\/p>\n

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