Coat
Category
Costume
Date
1740 - 1755
Materials
Linen, taffeta, shot silk
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348765.1
Summary
Male coat made from pink/green shot silk taffeta. Fully lined in cream silk. Unbleached linen interlining to front, pocket flaps and inside pocket. Front line curving away only slightly from chest. Shortened at waist to give waist seam. Overlapped back seam. Open side vents with stitched pleat either side and several other folds. Hip buttons. Deep scalloped pocket flap. 'V' shaped pocket opening. Narrow stand collar. Narrow fitted sleeves with close round cuff. Sleeve end at top of cuff. Cuff lies over lining only. Cuttoned from neck to just below waist. 9 domed wooden buttons, self-covered centre front, with wide buttonholes partly cut. Has been shorted at waist by 2.25 inches, 7 cm. Very similar to SNO.TC.63 and SNO.TC.64. Joan Kendall says this is possibly Quaker. Line drawing attached to inventory card. (male)
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection