Short blouse; part of a traditional Hungarian dance costume. Blouse has a wide neckline edged in lace, and short puffed sleeves decorated with lace and an inset light blue ribbon. Bodice is light blue silk, pointed at bottom front and back, embelished with swirled designs in brown metalic thread along the front button closure, hems, and up the back darts. Buttons are gold orbs, and hide hook and eye closures. The blouse is lined with unbleached cotton on the inside of the bodice.

Gift of Carolyn Schnurer

Linen blouse (part of a girl’s costume with 3052/19-24). Shirt is long, with a ‘v’ neck and wide sleeves that end in small, pleated cuffs. Shoulder area is heavily embroidered with diamond patterns in red and orange. Flower and stem motifs fall from the shoulders to the chest, with a similar motif down the arm, and the neck and cuffs are decorated with embroidery in the same colours. Neck and cuffs are closed by thin wool drawstrings with tassels.

Blouse (part of a woman’s costume, with 3052/10-17) made of fine white linen. Blouse has a square neck and wide sleeves that narrow to a tight cuff with a hook and eye closure. Arms are heavily decorated around shoulder area with lines of needlepoint in red and black. Cuffs and neck are also embroidered, but more simply, with single lines of red and black.

Long sleeved blouse (part of a girl’s costume, with 3052/2-8). Made of thick, cream coloured cotton, with wide sleeves heavily embroidered in diagonal lines in a deep purple and yellow flower motif on a green background. The cuffs are embroidered with cutwork. The neck is a ‘v’ style, with embroidered collar similar to the motifs on the sleeves. The hem of the blouse is cut slightly longer on the outside.

Small cream-coloured, "jusi" fabric blouse with embroidered decoration. The blouse has short sleeves with folded cuffs, embroidered with a vine and flower design in white thread. The front of the blouse is similarly embroidered with twisted vines, small leaves and flowers, with small sections of holes scattered throughout the pattern. The front of the blouse is decorated with four groupings of three pearlescent, plastic buttons. The back of the blouse fastens with five metal snaps and a metal hook at the top of the back edge of the collar.

Small cream-coloured, "jusi" fabric blouse with embroidered decoration. The dark cream blouse has elbow-length sleeves with scalloped-edge cuffs, decorated with floral embroidery on the outside edges. The front the blouse is decorated with floral design embroidery in white thread. The design is twisted vines with small leaves and flowers with small sections of holes scattered throughout the pattern, especially inside the larger flower designs. The blouse front also has four groupings of three pearlescent, plastic buttons each. The back of the blouse fastens with five metal snaps and a metal hook at the top of the back edge of the collar.

Small cream-coloured, "jusi" fabric blouse with embroidered decoration. The blouse has short sleeves with scalloped-edge cuffs embroidered with flowers along the edges. The front section of the blouse is also decorated with white floral embroidery and two large flowers sitting in a sun shape, interiors decorated with small holes created by criss-crossed white fibres. This pattern is also scattered across the other sections of embroidery. The front of the blouse is decorated with four groupings of three pearlescent, plastic buttons. The back of the blouse fastens with five metal snaps and a metal hook at the top back of the collar.

Sheer cream-coloured embroidered blouse; short bodice with long, flared sleeves and a wide collar. Small, white embroidered scrolls are scattered across the material. The collar, right front side edge and sleeve cuffs are decorated with intricate floral embroidery. Diagonal lines of embroidery also extend up towards the shoulders from the scalloped cuffs. The tops of the sleeves are pleated in a slightly lighter colour of cream fabric. The edge of the collar is also scalloped.

Blouse with embroidered decoration; wide, open sleeves gathered where they attach to the bodice, and embroidered floral decoration around the collar and bottoms of the scalloped sleeves. The decoration consists of cream coloured embroidery of vines with leaves and flowers interspersed with light brown plastic sequins and beads. Small embroidered flowers are scattered across the fabric on both sleeves and the torso of the shirt. The sleeves are stiff and lined with mesh.