Tailcoat
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Cotton, Metal, Silk, Wool
Measurements
635 mm (Height)
Collection
National Trust Carriage Museum
NT 272838.3
Summary
Black wool tail-coat jacket with lapels and a black silk lining. With four material covered buttons and breast pocket. 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’.