Waistcoat
Date1745-1760
OriginEngland
MediumYellow silk satin, trimmed with silver metal woven tape; backed with two different worsted textiles; faced with silk and lined with cotton/linen twill "fustian," and wooden buttonmolds
DimensionsOL: 36"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1960-708
DescriptionMan's sleeveless waistcoat of bright yellow silk satin, trimmed down fronts, hems, and around pocket flaps with 1 1/2" wide silver tinsel woven tape or galloon. Waistcoat is collarless, buttoned down front (7 buttons; 11 metallic welt buttonholes.) Shaped pocket flaps are trimmed with 5 buttons, in addition to the silver trim that forms 3 loops beneath each pocket. Waistcoat back made of tabby worsted in yellow, plus fragments of twill worsted. Fronts and skirts faced with silk; lining of cotton and linen twill "fustian."ProvenanceEx. coll. Doris Langley Moore.
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