Coat
Category
Costume
Date
1760 - 1770
Materials
Silk, silk twill, linen, wood, metal
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348775.1
Summary
Coat made of shell pink ribbed silk. Lining mainly of cream silk twill. Back, sleeves and pockets lined with fustian. Front edges interlined stiff linen. Stop of backshirts interlined stiffened hessians, the lining stuck to the interlining. Front line buttoned, curving away from chest. Narrow standing collar. Pockets with curved opening and scalloped flaps. Wide back. Edge to edge centre vent, seamed between 2 deep pleats. Triple pleated side vents, held in 2 places. Narrow, shaped sleeves with slanted close round cuffs. Flat wooden, self-covered buttons. 10 centre front from neck to hip with buttonholes each partly cut. 3 on cuff, 3 false buttons on each pocket. 2 hip buttons, 2 on each side vent. Bent steel wire hook and eye at neck. Line drawing with inventory card. (male)