Suit waistcoat
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Tweed, Textile and buttons.
Collection
Mr Straw's House, Nottinghamshire
NT 747723.2
Summary
A brown tweed suit waistcoat, part of a 2 piece suit alongside jacket 747723.1. Waistcoat has six brown, round buttons at the centre fastening. It also features a vertical buttonhole for a pocket watch, below the top buttonhole. There are two pockets on either side, one above the other. There is an inside pocket with a button-fastening (cream coloured button) on the left side of the waistcoat. The back of the waistcoat is brown. The lining of the waistcoat features the same pattern as the jacket. It is white with a striped vertical lines. The lines are red, light blue, and black.
Provenance
Straw collection bequeathed to the National Trust on the death in 1990 of William Straw.