Waistcoat
Category
Costume
Date
1785 - 1795
Materials
Textile
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349042
Summary
Waistcoat made from silver lame and blue silk stripe with a cream linen back. The facings are cream silk tabby with cream linen foreparts. There are self fabric covered buttons. The back has been let out and pieced with a strip of linen with eyelet holes. The side vents are possibly altered. It is possibly remade for a larger man with shoulder and back pieces added. (male)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade