Jacket
ca.1854 (made)
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Round-necked collarless short jacket with wrist-length sleeves. Te garment is lined with tan-coloured satinized cotton, and the sleeves with blue-striped white cotton twill. The front edges, sleeves, and back darts are all decorated with laid and couched grey-green frogging; and the neck, hem and front edges are bound with matching braid. The garment fastens at the neck front with matching triangular flap which buttonholes over a button at each of the two edges.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts. (Some alternative part names are also shown below)
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| Materials and techniques | Cotton; twill-weav, machine stitching |
| Brief description | Jacket, for a boy, cotton; twill-weave, machine stitching, by Best & Co, New York, United States of America, ca.1854 |
| Physical description | Round-necked collarless short jacket with wrist-length sleeves. Te garment is lined with tan-coloured satinized cotton, and the sleeves with blue-striped white cotton twill. The front edges, sleeves, and back darts are all decorated with laid and couched grey-green frogging; and the neck, hem and front edges are bound with matching braid. The garment fastens at the neck front with matching triangular flap which buttonholes over a button at each of the two edges. |
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| Object history | This jacket was associated with the trousers Misc.33-1990, which belonged to a little boy in the USA, George Moore. The trousers were evidently his very first pair after ceasing to wear dresses: a card found in the pocket was inscribed "First trowsers of Geo.F Moore 1854. His mother's first exploit!". It may be that the jacket was bought for him at the same time. |
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| Accession number | MISC.32-1990 |
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| Record created | July 1, 2009 |
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