suit, 2-piece
date: label: Date made
content: 1775-1790
label: date made
content: c. 1790
notes: label: Description
content: Main dress; entire body/white; fabric woven with narrow, satin stripe; jacket has band collar; center front opening fastens with 3 metal hooks and eyes; right front edge trimmed with 10 self-covered buttons; left front edge trimmed with 10 long sewn buttonholes without slits; long, set-in, shaped sleeves with placket opening, which fastens with 3 covered buttons; jacket flares out at sides and back; side plackets trimmed with 3 covered buttons, then covered with flared pleat of front skirt panel; back skirt panel pleated below placket; center back placket inside pockets measure 35 1/4" (89 5/10 cm); trousers have wide yoke with center front placket opening, which continues to crotch flap across front attached over opening; placket openings along outside seams of legs; band around bottom has tabs which button to each other below placket opening; lined in white linen; measures 29" (73 7/10 cm) from center back top to bottom of leg
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Men
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Clothing & Accessories
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Cora Ginsburg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0428.002
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0428.002
label: accession number
content: 1989.0428
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Suit, 2-piece