Suit trousers
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Metal, Wool
Measurements
394 mm (Height)
Collection
National Trust Carriage Museum
NT 272838.2
Summary
Black wool pair of trousers with buttoned fly. Part of a three-piece suit made for Charles Stratton (1838–1883).Stratton was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in the United States on 4 January 1838, and died on 15 July 1883 in Middleboro, Massachusetts. Ultimately growing to a height of 40 inches (1 metre), he became famous under the name 'General Tom Thumb' while touring the United States and Europe as a star of P.T. Barnum’s ‘American Museum’.