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Riding Coat

1750s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Woman’s coat for a riding habit of dark brown camlet (silk warp, worsted weft). It has a 1-inch (2.5 cm) standing collar, 2 shaped pocket flaps (no pockets) and long, curving, 2-piece sleeves with 3 ½ inch (8.8 cm) cuffs. There are wide skirts below the waist seam; the fronts are curving with a deep point below the waist at centre front. The backs are cut in 1 piece with its skirts. The sleeves and bodice of the coat are lined with linen; the skirts with brown camlet. There is a ‘fish’ [dart] in each front edge at the level of the second buttonhole to shape over the edge of the stays that would be worn underneath. The coat fastens at centre front with 8 worked buttonholes on the left front, none of the corresponding buttons remains. There are 3 brown silk covered buttons below the right pocket flap and 2 remaining below the left flap, 1 at the top of the side openings of the skirts and 1 at the bottom of the left skirt opening.


Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Silk, wool, linen; hand-woven, hand-sewn
Brief description
Coat of a woman's riding habit, English, 1750s; Brown camlet, standing collar
Physical description
Woman’s coat for a riding habit of dark brown camlet (silk warp, worsted weft). It has a 1-inch (2.5 cm) standing collar, 2 shaped pocket flaps (no pockets) and long, curving, 2-piece sleeves with 3 ½ inch (8.8 cm) cuffs. There are wide skirts below the waist seam; the fronts are curving with a deep point below the waist at centre front. The backs are cut in 1 piece with its skirts. The sleeves and bodice of the coat are lined with linen; the skirts with brown camlet. There is a ‘fish’ [dart] in each front edge at the level of the second buttonhole to shape over the edge of the stays that would be worn underneath. The coat fastens at centre front with 8 worked buttonholes on the left front, none of the corresponding buttons remains. There are 3 brown silk covered buttons below the right pocket flap and 2 remaining below the left flap, 1 at the top of the side openings of the skirts and 1 at the bottom of the left skirt opening.
Dimensions
  • Overall length: 77.5cm (approx)
  • Bust under armholes circumference: 96.0cm (approx)
Bibliographic reference
See Waugh, Cut of Women's Clothes, diagram XXXI.
Collection
Accession number
T.26-1923

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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