Chemise no. 96

Man’s chemise (poukamiso, turk. gömlek) made of silk-cotton crepe textile, white with light brown stripes, woven on the loom with wefts of different tensions, thus creating puckered stripes along the warp (taiston). The front is made of a piece 80cm long and 72cm wide, with the stripes set vertically. On the chest is an additional rectangular piece (46x20cm) with a vertical opening 39cm long, fastened by five buttons (one of them on the col­lar). Here the stripes are arranged horizontally and the cloth is gathered together with stitching forming a honeycomb pattern within a frame. The strip of cloth that borders the lower part of this piece has decorative zigzag stitches. An additional piece stitched to the lower edge makes the front part 17cm longer. On the shoulders is another piece of cloth, 13.5cm wide and 56cm long from arm to arm, with the stripes set horizontally. The back is one piece with the stripes arranged vertically, and is stitched to the shoulder piece and to the sides of the front piece under the arms. The back is also elon­gated with an extra piece of the same cloth, 8cm long, attached to the lower end. The edges are treated with machine stitching. Around the neck is formed an upright collar 3.5cm wide. The long sleeves (57cm) are sewn vertically to the body and to the shoulder piece. Starting with a width of 25cm at the shoulder, the sleeves narrow downwards to 13.5cm and end in cuffs 6cm wide, fastened by one white button. The stripes of the cuffs are horizontal. The chemise is of fine manufacture and well preserved.