Waistcoat
date: label: Date
content: 1730–50
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Gentleman's full-skirted waistcoat of blue satin with monochrome embroidery of floral forms worked heavily along the front and lower edges and pocket area. White silk moire lining in skirt.
place: label: made in
content: England or France
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of Richard Cranch Greenleaf in memory of his mother, Adeline Emma Greenleaf
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1962-54-7
objectType: label: Type
content: costume & accessories
label: Type
content: Waistcoat
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, buckram Technique: embroidered in satin, running and knot stitches, with couched crimped thread on a satin foundation. The garment is lined with silk moiré and the skirt in interlined with buckram (sized heavy linen plain weave)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 88.9 x 89.5 cm (35 in. x 35 1/4 in.)