Hooded jacket
Category
Costume
Date
1745 - 1760
Materials
Linen, Metal, Silk satin
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348886.2
Summary
Hooded jacket - Made of stone white silk satin, quilted overall with matching thread. 0.125 inch (3 mm) band of bright green at selvedge. bodicee and stomacher fronts lined with linen. bodicee lining fitted with 7 bones. Front edges and stomacher also boned. Hip length jacket with fitted body and pleated skirt - cut in one. bodice front has wide revers with centre-front opening and stomacher pieces with tabs. Centre-back seam and 2 underarm seams, opening out into wide box pleats at waist. Elbow length sleeves with deep pointed ruffle. Hood has one seam centre-back. Pleated into back neck. Skirt has partial border of shallow swags with flowers and leaves, and the sleeves flounches are quilted overall in similar desings. Fastens at the centre front with 10 hook and eyes, 8 and 6 respectively being original, steel (possibly tin plated) wire, with flattened tips to the hooks. Jacket could have been made up from another petticoat as motifs are assymetrical. cf Janet Arnold 'Patterns of Fashion' p 30; Nancy Bradfield 'Costume in Detail' p21.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade