Football pants; William Skinner and Sons nylon satin body with cotton twill padding; 1946
date: label: date made
content: 1946
name: label: maker
content: William Skinner and Sons
notes: label: Description
content: Football pants; William Skinner and Sons nylon satin body with cotton twill padding; 1946. Gold football pants with white quilted knee padding. Nylon satin body with cotton twill facing and padding and knit wool stretch gussets. Fabric made in 1946 in Holyoke, MA.
label: Description
content: Gussets made from knit wool on center bag of legs to add stretch to leg opening. White quilted padding on interior of knees is attached at top only and enclosed into the pocket. Self bias tape encloses the edges of the padding. They are filled with batting. Cotton shoelace used for center front lacing. The body is nylon statin made by William Skinner and Son with a cotton twill used on the waistband facing. Made of side panels and crotch panels, which are continuous from center front after the lacing to center back. Six rows of buttonholes for lacing at waist. Triple stitched flat-feld seams on all vertical seams. Top stitching at waisted. Elastic at leg opeings. Pocket placed in interior on thighs, possibly for more padding. Dark, thin stains at crotch seams. Creaselines on right kneecap and pocket. Some holes in knit stretch on back of legs.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Holyoke
label: Associated Place
content: United States: New Jersey, Allentown
topic: label: web subject
content: American Textile Industry
label: related event
content: World War II
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: American Silks
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content: American Textile Industry
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content: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William Skinner and Sons
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T09669.000
label: catalog number
content: T09669.000
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pants, Football
label: Object Name
content: Football pants
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: satin weave (overall production method/technique)
label: Physical Description
content: Gold (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: nylon (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 30 in x 35 in; 76.2 cm x 88.9 cm