Tailcoat waistcoat
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cotton, Silk, Wood, Wool
Measurements
229 mm (Height)
Collection
National Trust Carriage Museum
NT 272838
Summary
A three-piece suit made for Charles Stratton (1838–1883). Stratton was born in the United States in Bridgeport, Connecticut on 4 January 1838, and died on 15 July 1883 in Middleboro, Massachusetts. Ultimately growing to a height of 40 inches (1 metre), he became famous under the name 'General Tom Thumb' while touring the United States and Europe as a star of P.T. Barnum’s ‘American Museum’.