trousers
date: label: Date made
content: 1785-1820
notes: label: Description
content: Tan cotton nankeen trousers with moderate width (60% of front), three-button fall is barely tapered to be slightly wider at the upper edge that it is at the base; the center button of the fall is also the lower button of the two-button center front waistband closure; fall is bound on both vertical edges by narrow, tapered, pointed strips; additional lap under the fall was created by adding trapezoidal extensions to each side of the opening, anchored to the base of the fall at the outside corners with a bar of stitching; one pocket is at each side of the fall, each under a flared panel that is buttoned to the waistband at the upper, outer corner; one small watch pocket welt in right front waistband; upper edge of waistband is curved to be higher at both center front and center back than it is at side seams; four suspender buttons (one pair in front, one pair in back); all buttons are flat, self-covered; forked; cut full in seat, with fullness gathered into back waistband; waistband was pieced at right back; an opening in the CB waistband is flanked by two pairs of worked eyelets tied with two strips of torn linen; seat is pieced with two small triangles (one at each side of the vent in the center back seam) as well as a larger pair of piecings across the fullest portion of the hips (one at each side of the center back seam); inseams of legs are slightly shaped over the calf, with an ankle vent in the outside seams; pockets and fall lining are yellowed linen (originally white).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur M. Greenwood
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.388890
label: catalog number
content: 388890
label: accession number
content: 182022
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Trousers
label: Object Type
content: trousers
label: Other Terms
content: Trousers; Lower Body; Main Dress; Male
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: waist circumference, w/o cb vent: 96.4 cm; x 37 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall length at side: 42 1/2 in; 107.95 cm
label: Measurements
content: fall width, upper edge: 29.8 cm; x 11 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width, across base: 27 cm; x 10 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: fall height: 16 cm; 6 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: watch pocket welt: 1.8 cm x 8.2 cm; 11/16 in x 3 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cb: 6.5 cm; 2 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, side: 6.3 cm; 2 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cf: 8 cm; 3 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: opening, cb waist, length: 9.5 cm; 3 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, fall and pocket: 1.2 cm; x 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, cf and suspender: 1.5 cm; x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: seat (cb waist to crotch, inc. band): 55.9 cm; 22 in
label: Measurements
content: rise (cf/crotch/cb, inc. waistband): 106 cm; 41 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: inseam: 72.6 cm; 28 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: ankle circumference: 33 cm; x 13 in
label: Measurements
content: ankle vent: 3 in; 7.62 cm
label: Measurements
content: bindings on fall, upper (max) width: 3/4 in; x 1.905 cm