Coat
Category
Costume
Date
1780 - 1789
Materials
Shot silk, silk, linen
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348789.1
Summary
Coat - Made of old gold shot silk, selvedge striped pink and blue. Front, skirts and sleeves lined with cream silk. Back lined with linen. Pockets fine linen. Interlining hessian. Shoulders padded linen fibre wadding. Front edges of linen interlining are bound roughly with blue shot silk of similar quality to coat fabric. Front line curving well back from the chest. Narrow stand collar. Wide pockets with curved opening and deep, scalloped flap. Tapered back. Tackover centre vent. Triple-pleated side vents, the opening held together with places. Shaped sleeve with small, round, close cuff. Cut steel buttons. 10 centre front (2 missing) from below neck to hip. 3 on each cuff. 2 hip buttons. Fastened with 3 buttonholes on chest. Sleeves have been lengthened at cuff. Has been made larger at side seams and sleeve seam. Buttons on early date, but no original. Original buttons much larger.