Jacket
Category
Costume
Date
1720 - 1780
Materials
Damask, Linen, Net, Silk
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348745
Summary
Jacket - Silk tissue. Large multi-coloured design of flowers and leaves with a stylised framework. Damasked ground in bunting yellow. 1711, French or English. Bodice and upper sleeves lined cream silk, lower sleeves lined bleached linen. Fitted bodice, hip-length pleated skirt. Wide front opening (over waistcoat). Pointed waistline centre back. Skirt pleated centre back, gored and pleated at sides. 2 small pocket slits. Sleeves set in, long curbed at elbow, opening at wrist. Lining silk mounted onto lining before construction. All edges trimmed with wide pleated band of white patterned net edged with coloured silk ribbon. The same net ruched covers the elbows (originally the cuff?). Evidence of pinnings. Sleeves have been lengthened from elbow, and made more narrow from the top. Silk very similar to portrait by A. Belle, now in Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Peter Thornton 'Baroque and Rococco Silks' plate 49B. Cf Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' p. 12, Janet Arnold 'Patterns of Fashion' p. 26. (female)