coat, frock
date: label: Date made
content: 1770-1785
notes: label: Description
content: Main dress; upper body/orange; tightly woven fabric with slight nap on both sides; wide rolled collar, coming to a point at center back; center front opening edges curving out below waist; right front edge trimmed with 10 self-covered buttons; left front edge has 10 horizontal lines of buttonhole stitching without slits; long set-in shaped sleeves, with cuffs folded up at bottom; jacket skirt flares out in back; placket opening along right and left back seams; front skirt panel pleated over placket, back skirt panel pleated under placket; center back placket opening, left flap overlapping right; flap pockets, right and left side hips; large flaps have shaped lower edges cut rather than hemmed, front facings and front skirt panel linings of beige silk; sleeves lined with beige linen; measures 44 1/4" (112 4/10 cm) down center back.
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: 1989.0428.001
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0428.001
label: accession number
content: 1989.0428
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Coat, Frock