breeches
date: label: Date made
content: 1780-1790
name: label: user
content: Palmer, Noyes
notes: label: Description
content: Breeches of palest pink (mostly faded to white) cotton twill, printed in brown and red with a small repeat pattern of rayed spots alternated with dots; cut with a moderately narrow curved and flared two-button fall, and a very wide fork; sufficient lap under the fall front was gained by adding rectangular extensions along the left and right sides of the opening; three-button center front opening, with the lowest button hidden under the fall; all buttons are self-covered discs which have been bent into an arch; pocket welt in right waistband is set at an angle; one pocket at each side, contained between lining and outer fabric; each pocket opening is covered by a flared panel which fastens at the outer corner to a button on the waistband; two pairs of worked eyelets laced with a leather thong flank a vent at the center back of the very wide waistband; breeches are fully lined with heavy natural-colored linen; back legs are pieced along inseams between crotch and thigh; four buttons at each knee; the buttonhole sides of the knee openings are faced with a better grade of white linen than the rest of the lining; each knee is finished with a knee band that is extended into a long pointed tab at the front (buttonhole) side of the leg opening, and a short, slightly set-back tab at the back leg; the fall and pocket panels are top-stitched, as well as showing the stitches along the edge that join the lining to the outside fabric.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used in
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
label: used in
content: United States: Connecticut, Stonington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Cora Ginsburg, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0428.005
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0428.005
label: accession number
content: 1989.0428
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Breeches
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: waist, without gusset: 77 cm; x 30 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall length at side: 61 cm; 24 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width--top edge: 17.4 cm; x 6 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width, across base: 28.9 cm; x 11 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: fall height: 13.3 cm; 5 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: pocket welt, waistband: 2.4 cm x 9.2 cm; 15/16 in x 3 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cb: 7.4 cm; 2 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, side: 8.9 cm; 3 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cf: 15.3 cm; 6 in
label: Measurements
content: gusset, cb, length at spread edge: 13.5 cm; 5 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, fall, knee, side pocket: 1.5 cm; x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, cf: 2.1 cm; x 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: leg opening, length: 22.2 cm; 8 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: button span, leg opening: 12.5 cm; 4 15/16 in