breeches
date: label: Date made
content: 1795-1805
label: date made
content: 1775-1800
notes: label: Description
content: Breeches of tan wool in wide, corded-wale weave, with moderately narrow fall front; cut with moderately narrow (slightly greater than 90 degree) fork; fall was widened by adding pointed vertical strips to the left and right edges; three-button center-front closing, with the lowest button doubling as the center button of a three-button fall; flat brass with shank buttons at the center front and fall; breeches originally had four suspender buttons (left and right, front and back waistband), but now only one (bone, four-hole with recessed center) suspender button remains, at left front; pocket welt in right front waistband; two more pockets, one at each side of front, are covered by squared panels which fasten at the outer corner to a self-covered button on the waistband, just above the side seams; two pairs of worked eyelets with linen tape lacing flank the unbleached linen straight-of-grain gusset at center back of the waistband; waistband is lined with coarse unbleached linen; the fall and knee openings are lined, and the inserted pockets are made of a second type of coarse unbleached linen; set-in pockets are made from linen half-circles, folded in half to make quarter-rounds; the right pocket has been reinforced on the bottom edge with a third type of linen; the crotch was reinforced on the outside with a circular patch of heavily fulled wool; at each leg opening, there are one pair of ribbon ties, and four pearl with brass shank buttons, plus one covered button near the band, part way around the leg from the opening.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Mrs. Benjamin Ginsburg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.281729.001
label: catalog number
content: 281729.001
label: accession number
content: 281729
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Breeches
label: Other Terms
content: Breeches; Lower Body; Main Dress; Male
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: waist (without gusset): 70 cm; x 27 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall length (at side): 75 cm; 29 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width (straight, at top edge): 23.8 cm; x 9 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width (straight, across base): 22.3 cm; x 8 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: fall height, at center seam: 12 cm; 4 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cb: 6.5 cm; 2 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, side: 8 cm; 3 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cf: 8 cm; 3 1/8 in