Western Suit
1940s (designed), 1993-1994 (made)
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Western style suit, made from a 1940s design in greige polyester with embroidered arrows on jacket.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Embroidered polyester |
| Brief description | Suit, western style suit, jacket and trousers, brown wool, designed by H Bar C in 1940s, made possibly in 1990s, United States |
| Physical description | Western style suit, made from a 1940s design in greige polyester with embroidered arrows on jacket. |
| Object history | Registered File number 1993/2054, Streetstyle exhibition 1994-1995, in the exhibition it was part of an outfit called 'Cowboy and Western USA - Late 1940s' (includes the shirt T.608-1993 and collar tips T.610-1993, the tie T.609-1993, the hat T.611-1993 and the boots T.612-1993 and toe caps T.613-1993). This Western-style suit was made in 1993-1994 from a original late 1940s pattern. It would have been worn as an evening outfit in America, and was displayed in the Street Style Exhibition of 1996 as a Cowboy and Western Revival outfit. The polyester gabardine fabric would originally have been wool gabardine. |
| Bibliographic reference | Surfers, Soulies, Skinheads & Skaters : Subcultural Style from the Forties to the Nineties
Described in the exhibition publication, part of an outfit called 'Cowboy and Western USA - Late 1940s'. |
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| Accession number | T.606, 607-1993 |
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| Record created | May 29, 2009 |
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