Waistcoat
Category
Costume
Date
1765 - 1775
Materials
Shot silk taffeta and linen
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Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire
NT 1350862.1
Summary
Waistcoat, front of pink/green shot silk taffeta, linen back and cream linen lining. Foreparts skirts cut back, overlapping side vents. Back shorter than front. Buttons to point of divergence. Slightly curved pocket flaps; pocket with V-shaped opening. Wide piece of white cotton let-in down centre back. Fastened with 10 domed, self covered buttons (1 missing); 2 pairs of tapes across centre-back. Buttonholes stitched in two-coloured silk. (male)
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill Manor