breeches
date: label: Date made
content: 1760-1775
notes: label: Description
content: Brown cotton velveteen breeches with very wide fall front, extending the full width of the front; cut with very wide fork; 3 button center-front closing, with the lowest button doubling as the center button of a 5-button fall; center-front buttons are very large, flat brass on shanks, with dialled pattern of overlapping circles that are tangential to a center point; 4 additional, much smaller, buttons at the fall, and 5 buttons at each knee opening, are flat brass on shanks, stamped with a three-stemmed flower; pocket welt in right front waistband; the openings to two more set-in leather pockets, at left and right front, are in the waistband seam, faced with brown velveteen, and are covered by the fall; two pairs of worked eyelets flank a large V-shaped notch at the center back of the waistband; seat fullness is distributed into three pleats on each side, pleated towards the center back; waistband, fall, and the button side of knee opening are lined with coarse unbleached linen; linen was used to reinforce the center back seam; buttonhole sides of knee openings are faced with black wool; each knee is finished with an extended kneeband with buttonhole on the button side, an applied strap on the buttonhole side, and a curved extension (under the strap with buttonhole) to protect the leg from the buckle.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.281899.001
label: catalog number
content: 281899.001
label: accession number
content: 281899
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Breeches
label: Other Terms
content: Breeches; Lower Body; Main Dress; Male
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: waist, without gusset: 82 cm; x 32 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall length, at side: 59 cm; 23 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width--straight, top edge: 51 cm; x 20 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width, straight, at base: 53 cm; x 20 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: fall height, center seam: 11.5 cm; 4 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: pockets, side, max width: 16 cm; x 6 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: pockets, side, max depth: 15.5 cm; x 6 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: pocket, waistband, max width: 7 cm; x 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: pocket, waistband, max depth: 12 cm; x 4 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cb: 7 cm; 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, side: 7.4 cm; 2 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cf: 12 cm; 4 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: notch, cb, length (inc. waistband): 14 cm; 5 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: notch, cb, width at top waistband: 6.5 cm; x 2 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, fall and knee, diameter: 1/2 in; x 1.27 cm
label: Measurements
content: buttons, cf opening, diameter: 1 in; x 2.54 cm
label: Measurements
content: leg opening: 15.2 cm; 6 in
label: Measurements
content: kneeband, width: 2.5 cm; in
label: Measurements
content: strap at outside edge of kneeband: 2.3 cm; 7/8 in