breeches
date: label: Date made
content: 1740 - 1769
label: date made
content: c. 1765
notes: label: Description
content: Black silk knit breeches with narrow fall front; fall has deep concave curve along upper edge; breeches cut with moderately wide fork; sufficient lap under the fall front was gained by adding extensions along the left and right sides of the opening; two-button center-front closing; two-button fall; flat, black thread-work buttons with small embroidered center cross are found at the center-front , fall, side pockets, and knee openings; pocket welt in left front waistband; hidden pocket in right front waistband, with access from the upper edge of the waistband; two side pockets (one at each side of the fall) are concealed by panels that button to the waistband above the side seam; pocket panels are concave-curved on the upper edge, coming to an acute point at the buttonhole; pocket panels are faced with black glazed twill-weave wool; a long strap (backed with brown glazed linen) and a shorter tab with buttonhole (backed with black wool) flank the V-shaped opening at center back of the waistband; breeches are fully lined with white deerskin or chamois leather, except for the fall, which is lined with black glazed twill-weave wool; inset pockets are also of leather, and are enclosed between face fabric and lining; four buttons at each knee; buttonhole sides of knee openings are faced with glazed black wool twill; each knee opening is filled with a triangle of diaper-woven white silk, stitched to both sides of the opening; narrow knee bands of black wool; front waistband, knee openings, side pocket panels, and pocket welt in waistband are edge-stitched; fall is edge-stitched and top-stitched.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Cora Ginsburg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0071.001
label: accession number
content: 1979.0071
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0071.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Breeches
label: Other Terms
content: Breeches; Lower Body; Main Dress; Male
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: fall width--straight, base: 21 cm; x 8 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: fall height--center seam: 8 cm; 3 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: pockets, side: 14 cm x 20 cm; x 5 1/2 in x 7 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: pocket welt, waistband: 2.8 cm x 15 cm; 1 1/8 in x 5 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: pocket, waistband: 14 cm x 14.5 cm; x 5 1/2 in x 5 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cb: 5.5 cm; 2 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, side: 8 cm; 3 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, center front: 9 cm; 3 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall length at side: 58 cm; 22 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waist (without cb notch): 82.6 cm; x 32 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width (straight, pt to pt, top): 15 cm; x 5 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: notch, cb, along spread edge (inc waistband): 12 cm; 4 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: notch, cb, width at waist seam: 6 cm; x 2 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, cb: 2.2 cm; x 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, fall: 1.7 cm; x 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, side pockets: 1.7 cm; x 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, knee: 1.7 cm; x 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, span at knee: 9.8 cm; 3 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: knee opening, length: 15.3 cm; 6 in
label: Measurements
content: strap, cb (right): 3.5 cm x 12.4 cm; 1 3/8 in x 4 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: strap (with buttonhole), cb (left): 4 cm x 4.5 cm; 1 9/16 in x 1 3/4 in