Waistcoat

1770-1779 (made)
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Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to the top of the thigh. Each front has a pocket and pointed pocket flap. The fronts, backs and pocket flaps are made of pink silk satin. The waistcoat is lined with fustian, the pockets with bleached linen; the front skirt and pocket-flap linings and front facings are ivory silk twill. The waistcoat is tamboured-to-shape with white and green silk thread and maroon chenille, in a pattern of floral sprigs with a ground of repeated floral sprigs, on the pocket flaps, below the pockets, along the front necks, edges and hems. There are 12 worked buttonholes with embroidered borders along the left front with 12 embroidered buttons on the right front.

The waistcoat has been altered in the 19th century, probably for fancy dress. The centre back seam was unpicked and 2 pair of linen tape ties sewn to the back linings.


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Materials and Techniques
silk, linen, cotton; hand-woven satin, hand-embroidered, tamboured, hand-sewn
Brief Description
Man's waistcoat, 1770s, British; Pink silk satin, tamboured, altered 1870s
Physical Description
Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to the top of the thigh. Each front has a pocket and pointed pocket flap. The fronts, backs and pocket flaps are made of pink silk satin. The waistcoat is lined with fustian, the pockets with bleached linen; the front skirt and pocket-flap linings and front facings are ivory silk twill. The waistcoat is tamboured-to-shape with white and green silk thread and maroon chenille, in a pattern of floral sprigs with a ground of repeated floral sprigs, on the pocket flaps, below the pockets, along the front necks, edges and hems. There are 12 worked buttonholes with embroidered borders along the left front with 12 embroidered buttons on the right front.



The waistcoat has been altered in the 19th century, probably for fancy dress. The centre back seam was unpicked and 2 pair of linen tape ties sewn to the back linings.
Dimensions
  • Right shoulder to right hem length: 86.0cm (approx)
  • Chest under armholes circumference: 88.0cm (approx)
Collection
Accession Number
258-1880

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record createdJune 24, 2009
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