1770s 1780-85, United Kingdom

1770s 1780-85, United Kingdom

Identifier
CIRC.124-1963
Acquisition
Part of the Gorst collection, given by Mrs Katherine Rachael Thomas
Collection
Technique
Depiction
Dimension
128 cm (circumference)
80.4000015258789 cm (length)
Production time
Production place
Type of object

Description

A man's waistcoat with round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to the top of the thigh. Each front has a pocket and a shaped pocket flap. The fronts are made of black silk satin, the backs of black glazed worsted twill. The waistcoat is lined with unbleached fustian; the fronts are faced and the skirts lined with black glazed worsted twill. There are 13 worked buttonholes along the left front; there were 13 corresponding black silk thread-covered buttons along the right front (top button now missing). The waistcoat was altered to update the style, probably during the early 1780s; the shaped pocket flap was unpicked and sewn upside down, in the manner of a welt. It was also altered for size; insertions of linen and black glazed worsted twill were made at the side and centre back seams. Man's waistcoat, Great Britain, 1770s; black silk satin and black glazed worsted, altered 1780-1785.