Coat
Category
Costume
Date
1770 - 1779
Materials
steel, wood, silver thread, linen, silk twill, wool, silk
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348783.1
Summary
Coat - Made of cream ribbed, warp-faced. Silk warp over thicker woollen weft. Lined with cream silk twill. Sleeves and interlinings loose linen. Pockets lined with twilled wool. Edge-to-edge closure, the front line curving away from below waist. 1 cm collar band. Pockets with 'v' opening and curved scalloped flaps. Wide tapering back. Centre vent with tackover. Triple-pleated side vents, the opening attached mid-way and at hem. Narrow fitted sleeves with small close, round cuff. Cotton hanging tape. Trimmed with silver thread braids. Frogging and tassels both sides of centre-front opening and on cuffs and pocket flaps. Buttons self covered wooden buttons with a tamboured star design in silver thread and sequins. 9 centre front, grouped from neck 2, 3 and 4. 3 on each cuff, 3 below each pocket flap (match those on waistcoat). 2 hip buttons, 2 more on each side ventre. All buttons sham. Bent steel wire hook and eye centre front. Coat appears earlier than wiastcoat - pocket openings, width of back, and collar are different.