Breeches
Category
Costume
Date
1770 - 1799
Materials
Buckskin, leather, pearl, bone
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1348890
Summary
Breeches - Made of champagne buckskin. Small falls; fob pocket only. Fastned with 4 leather covered; 6 cream bone buttons (possibly not original); 8 pearl at leg openings (2 only original). Falls held up centre-front by loop to front opening buttons; 3 pairs eyelet holes centre-back with leather thong; fastened at kneebands with leather strings. Buttons for braces (1 at front) but possibly not original.
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade