Little longer than knee length green and black peasant skirt. There is an inch thick waist band. In the center of the band is what looks like a green braid, which has a few black stitches intertwining with it. The braid is little over a half in thick and is bordered with just solid black fabric. Under the waist band is a five inch space of just black, pleated fabric, sixteen pleats in all. The rest of the skirt is covered in that same braided green pattern, like the one on the waist band. There are twenty three rows of this patter, which fully encompass the skirt. In between each pattern is a very thin, somewhat shiny, gold stitching. It is just a single stitch that also fully circles the skirt. When looking at the trim of the skirt, it looks like it is finished off with the green/black braid, but when flipping it inward, the very bottom has the thin gold stitch. Also the inside of the skirt is not lined so what you see on the reverse side is what you see on the inside.

Handmade pencil skirt, possibly made by donor herself. Ann Syrioploulos was born in Wisconsin in 1918. She lived with her parents Michael (father) and Base (mother) Syriopoulos who were born in Greece. She also lived with her three sisters Mary, Dorothy and Theresa.

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