Barong Tagalog shirt 28" long, 22" wide. This shirt has a half-way buttoned down front opening. It posesses an average-shaped shirt color(sp?), long slightly blousy buttoned cuffs. THere are 7.75" slits at the bottom of the shirt side seams. This shirt is made of rare Pina fabric, made from hand-plucked fibers taken from the leaf of a pineapple plant. Fibers are dried and woven by hand. Nearly all Pina comes from the city and province of Iloilo (1986.200.010). The shirt is a soft peach color, where the Pina fibers create a translucent effect. Material is embellished with delicate silk floss images in royal blue, sky blue, reds, yellows, green, pink, and touches of brown. Silk floss is concentrated around borders of the opening. Images include a yellow and brown roofed house on stilts in water with a group of palm trees, a woman in a traditional short puffed sleeve dress and blue apron, a man and woman taking turns churning the butter, and a blue-hatted young man with a fishing pole jumping stones across a creek. Many images are enhanced or bordered by rose flowered patterns.

1985.029.016