Doublet
Category
Costume
Date
1660 - 1670
Materials
Silk, boning and linen
Measurements
460 mm (Width) x 50 mm (Depth); 490 mm (Length); 425 mm (Length)
Collection
Claydon House, Buckinghamshire
NT 1446624.1
Summary
Suit, to include: a man's doublet, Spanish cloak, petticoat breeches, pair of gloves and sword belt. Of figured cream lampas. Lined. The breeches, doublet and gloves trimmed with large bunches of ribbons. Doublet of figured cream silk lampas, (matching cloak and breeches). Lining of silk. Collar stiffened and structural padding added to build up the proper left back and shoulder area and top of proper right front and shoulder to accommodate deformity. Triangular pieces of linen stiffened with reeds at bottom of centre front left and right and through body of doublet. The front closing of close set buttonholes and round buttons covered in plaited silk thread. Ribbon style sleeves with cream silk cuffs trimmed with bunches of coloured ribbons. c.1660s
Provenance
Linked to a bill in the Verney family archive dated 18 May 1660 and thought to have been made for the wedding of Sir Edmund Verney (1636-88); by descent in the Verney family; accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax and allocated to the National Trust for display at Claydon House, 2005.
References
Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution (Ed. Margarette Lincoln), National Maritime Museum, 20th November 2015 - 28th March 2016, Cat. 59, p.124 Reynolds 2013: Anna Reynolds In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion Royal Collection Trust, 2013, pp.92-95