Bécassine - the talkative maid

6-piece dress set with underdress, overdress, apron, blommers, bonnet and stockings

The underdress has a white blouse top with pintucks and long lace trimmed sleeves with
a white-red checked underskirt.
Over this "blouse and petticoat" she wears a green linen dress with the typical
red bib and black ribbon trim.
The white cotton apron has an inserted lace with hemstich look.
Underneath she wears white cotton bloomers with lace, entre deux and green ribbon trim.
A white bonnet and red-white stripped stockings complete her outfit.

About Bécassine

Bécassine is a French cartoon character by the draftsman Joseph Pinchon and the author
Jacqueline Rivière.
Bécassine appeared for the first time in the first edition of the girl magazine
La Semaine de Suzette on February 2, 1905.
She embodied the typical maid from Bretagne who had moved to the great city of Paris
because of the great demand.
She was portrayed as naive, but surrendered to domination.
Her numerous linguistic errors were a source of amusement to the bourgeois readers.
She was very talkative, but not in relation to the family secrets of her rule.