breeches
date: label: Date made
content: 1780-1800
label: date made
content: 1790-1810
notes: label: Description
content: Black silk satin forked breeches with fall front; the width of the fall is extended by pointed, curved, flared strips at left and right sides; three-button center-front closing, with the lowest button doubling as the center button of a three-button fall; the three center-front buttons are flat wood, covered in plain black silk; the left and right fall buttons are black japanned metal; pocket welt in right front waistband; one pair of eyelets with a black ribbon lacing flanks the gusset at center back of the waistband; waistband is lined with white linen; fall is lined with black twill wool; five flat buttons at each knee are worked with black silk thread in quartered pattern; a tab at each knee buttons to a sixth, matching button; knee bands and button sides of knee opening are faced with white linen; buttonhole sides of knee openings are faced with black wool; a pinked semi-circle of black wool extends below the button sides of the knee openings.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Bonnie Martin
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.0144.001
label: accession number
content: 1993.0144
label: catalog number
content: 1993.0144.001
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Breeches
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cb: 7 cm; 2 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, side: 8.4 cm; 3 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cf: 9.8 cm; 3 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: gusset, cb, along spread edge: 13 cm; 5 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: gusset, cb, width at upper edge: 5 cm; x 1 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, fall: 1.7 cm; x 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, knee: 1.3 cm; x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, front opening: 2 cm; x 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waist circumference w/o gusset: 71 cm; x 27 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall length--at side: 74 cm; 29 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width--straight, at upper edge: 23.8 cm; x 9 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width--straight, at base: 27 cm; x 10 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: fall height: 14.2 cm; 5 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: pocket welt: 2.2 cm x 10.4 cm; 7/8 in x 4 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: pocket, waistband, max interior: 10.4 cm x 15.5 cm; x 4 1/8 in x 6 1/8 in