Coat
Category
Costume
Date
1770 - 1779
Materials
Silk, silk twill, linen, metal
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348778.1
Summary
Coat - Made of plain pink-beige ribbed silk. Selvedge striped green/cream. Lined with cream silk twill. Back lined bleached linen. Inerlined with linen, pockets with sized linen. Fragments of purple silk twill inside left-hand edge. Shoulds possibly padded with linen wadding. Front line curves away. Medium stand collar. Pockets with curved opening and rep scalloped flaps. Narrow, tapered back. Tackover centre flap. Triple pleated side vents, held together at intervals. Medium size self-covered buttons. 10 from neck to hip, 3 on each pocket and cuff. 2 hip buttons and 11 on each side ventre hem. Bent steel wire hook and eye centre front at chest. Only 4 buttonholes cut. Sleeves have been widened. (male)