The drawers have layers of ruffles on them. I believe this style started in the 1950s when there was a big craze or film version of antebellum dresses. Pre-1980 the dresses were a 3-tiered (no ruffles) skirt of chiffon in pastels. The hat had no ruffles but more like a sun bonnet. The parasol was plain and the color of the dress.
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