Suit
Pratt Manning and Co
Category
Costume
Date
Unknown
Materials
Textile
Measurements
540 mm (Width)
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Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 516915
Summary
Two-piece tweed suit, blue and red tweed. 2-button jacket, 4-button cuffs. Turn-up trousers, with buttons for braces, zip fly. Label 'Pratt, Manning and Co, Cambridge, and at 45 Maddox St, London W1'. Handwritten in trousers 'Lord Fairhaven Feb 54' Handwritten in jacket 'Lord Fairhaven A1277 Oct 53'. Chest 42 inch. Jacket has padding at underarms containing anit-perspirant beads.
Provenance
Part of the Fairhaven Collection. The house and contents were bequeathed to the National Trust in 1966 by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)
Makers and roles
Pratt Manning and Co , tailors and outfitters Pratt Manning and Co , outfitter