Waistcoat
1780-85 (made)
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A man's waistcoat of silk with a standing collar of 4.5 cm, curving front and skirts reaching to the top of the thigh. There is a pocket and shaped pocket flap on each front. The fronts are made of cream silk striped with brown and pale grey silk in a lozenge pattern, bordered with stripes of silver strip. The back is made of cream worsted twill; the waistcoat lined with bleached fustian; the skirts lined and fronts faced with ivory silk twill. The front edges, hem, collar and pocket flaps are edged with a 7 cm wide ribbon of white silk and silver strip. There are 13 worked buttonholes along the right front and 13 corresponding buttons covered with a woven silver fabric on the right front, and three below each pocket.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk, cotton, linen, wool; hand-woven and hand-sewn |
| Brief description | A man's waistcoat, British, 1780-85, of cream silk striped with brown and silver. |
| Physical description | A man's waistcoat of silk with a standing collar of 4.5 cm, curving front and skirts reaching to the top of the thigh. There is a pocket and shaped pocket flap on each front. The fronts are made of cream silk striped with brown and pale grey silk in a lozenge pattern, bordered with stripes of silver strip. The back is made of cream worsted twill; the waistcoat lined with bleached fustian; the skirts lined and fronts faced with ivory silk twill. The front edges, hem, collar and pocket flaps are edged with a 7 cm wide ribbon of white silk and silver strip. There are 13 worked buttonholes along the right front and 13 corresponding buttons covered with a woven silver fabric on the right front, and three below each pocket. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Talbot Hughes (Written in black ink on the lining below the collar to the right of the centre back seam.) |
| Credit line | Given by Messrs Harrods |
| Object history | Talbot Hughes Collection |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | T.726-1913 |
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| Record created | November 11, 2009 |
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