Breeches
Category
Costume
Date
1800 - 1830
Materials
Pearl, leather, sheepskin, buckskin
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348888
Summary
Breeches - Made of champagne buckskin or sheepskin. Small fall; horizontal pockets with pocket flaps buttoning at corner; fob pocket. Falls held by centre-front by loop to front opening buttons. Reinforcing patch on inside legs. Fasted with 11 leather covered buttons (standard gilt and horn (slapha shank), 3 replacements, 1 missing). 8 pearl buttons at knee openings (1 replacement, 1 missing). 3 pairs of eyelet holes centre-back with leather strap. Fastened at kneebands with leather strings. Buttons for braces
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade