Frock coat
Category
Costume
Date
1800
Materials
Textile
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1349413
Summary
Frock coat made from blue ribbed silk with a cream silk taffeta lining with an interlining of coarse linen. It has linen pockets and an upper chest padding of dark blue woollen fabric and traces of painted paper interlining in the collar. It fastens with a bent wire hook and eye. There are large flat wooden self covered buttons. Could be Quaker. (male)
Provenance
Given to National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade