Waistcoat
1765 (weaving), 1765 (sewing), 1775 (altered)
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A man's waistcoat of carnation-pink satin, with a round neck, curving fronts, each front with a pocket and shaped pocket flap. The satin is brocaded in a woven-to-shape pattern of garlands, tassels and lace ribbons in green and white silk.
The waistcoat was probably made up first in the late 1760s and then altered in the mid-1770s. A seam at the waist above the pocket flaps shortened the skirts. The back of a slightly different shade of pink satin is probably a replacement. It has 10 pairs of eyelet holes at the centre back seam which is open from 7 cm below the neck. The lining of white silk twill was re-sewn into the waistcoat. There are 10 worked buttonholes along the left front and 10 corresponding self-covered buttons on the right front, with 1 below each pocket.
The waistcoat was probably made up first in the late 1760s and then altered in the mid-1770s. A seam at the waist above the pocket flaps shortened the skirts. The back of a slightly different shade of pink satin is probably a replacement. It has 10 pairs of eyelet holes at the centre back seam which is open from 7 cm below the neck. The lining of white silk twill was re-sewn into the waistcoat. There are 10 worked buttonholes along the left front and 10 corresponding self-covered buttons on the right front, with 1 below each pocket.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk; hand-woven and hand-sewn |
| Brief description | A man's waistcoat, French, pink brocaded satin, woven-to-shape 1765, remade 1775 |
| Physical description | A man's waistcoat of carnation-pink satin, with a round neck, curving fronts, each front with a pocket and shaped pocket flap. The satin is brocaded in a woven-to-shape pattern of garlands, tassels and lace ribbons in green and white silk. The waistcoat was probably made up first in the late 1760s and then altered in the mid-1770s. A seam at the waist above the pocket flaps shortened the skirts. The back of a slightly different shade of pink satin is probably a replacement. It has 10 pairs of eyelet holes at the centre back seam which is open from 7 cm below the neck. The lining of white silk twill was re-sewn into the waistcoat. There are 10 worked buttonholes along the left front and 10 corresponding self-covered buttons on the right front, with 1 below each pocket. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | Thomas Kirwan Butts (Hand-written, ink on paper, tacked on inside under right armhole.) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 839-1898 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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