breeches
date: label: Date made
content: 1785-1825
label: date made
content: 1780-1790
notes: label: Description
content: Black silk sateen twill knee breeches with three-button fall; wide fork; four-button closing at center front, with the third button from the top serving as the center button of the fall; the vertical strips at each side of the fall terminate in a point; the pocket at each side is covered by a squared panel which fastens at the outer corner to a button on the waistband, just above the side seams; four buttons are spaced evenly around the upper edge of the waistband for suspenders; the unlined black silk sateen gusset at back waist is flanked by one pair of worked eyelets for a lacing (missing); knees fasten with four buttons and silk ribbon ties; the waistband lining and the pocket in the right waistband are of coarse unbleached linen; the lining of the fall and the side pockets are of a less dense, finer grade of unbleached linen; the button side of the knee opening is faced with the better grade of linen; the buttonhole side of the knee opening is faced with black wool; all outside edges (waistband, kneebands, fall, and pockets) are stitched; side pocket flaps and upper edge of fall are edge-stitched and top-stitched.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used in
content: United States: Maryland
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mrs. Harold Dillingham, Mrs. Baldwin Wood, Miss Alice Smith and Miss Henrietta Smith
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.011843
label: catalog number
content: 011843
label: accession number
content: 51406
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Breeches
label: Other Terms
content: Breeches; Lower Body; Main Dress; Male
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall length--at side: 84 cm; 33 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waist circumference--w/o gusset: 79 cm; x 31 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width--straight, top edge: 27.8 cm; x 10 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width--straight, across base: 27 cm; x 10 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: fall height--center seam: 16.5 cm; 6 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: side pockets, maximum: 15.5 cm x 24 cm; x 6 1/8 in x 9 7/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband pocket welt: 2.6 cm x 9 cm; 1 in x 3 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband pocket, maximum: 7.8 cm x 19 cm; x 3 1/16 in x 7 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cb: 5.7 cm; 2 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, side: 8 cm; 3 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, center front: 9.5 cm; 3 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: gusset, cb, length at spread edge: 18 cm; 7 1/16 in
label: Measurements
content: gusset, cb, width: 11 cm; x 4 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, fall, waistband, pockets: 1.5 cm; x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, knee: 1.2 cm; x 1/2 in