Man's Suit (Three-Piece)
date: label: date made
content: 1948
notes: label: Description
content: This three-piece suit is made of gray herringbone tweed wool woven with fine dark and light brown vertical threads. The jacket is single-breasted with three buttons and a hacking pocket on the left breast. Two flap pockets are on the lower front, and there are four gray buttons on the cuffs of each arm. Dove-colored striped silk lines most of the jacket, with piped pockets inside the right breast and gray and white striped silk lining the sleeves.
label: Description
content: The trousers are cuffed, with a button-down fly opening and belt loops. The right front has a fob pocket, intended for use with a pocket watch. There are seam pockets in the front and piped pockets in the back with ivory twill weave silk lining.
label: Description
content: The single-breasted vest has four hacking pockets in front and a dove-colored stripe weave silk back. The lining is white twill weave silk, and the V-neck is bound in wool dress fabric. Six gray buttons are on the center front, and the back is self-belted.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Costume
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content: Clothing & Accessories
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content: American Enterprise
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Stuart C. Davidson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0666.01
label: accession number
content: 1985.0666
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0666.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: suit, 3-piece
label: Other Terms
content: suit, 3-piece; Entire Body; Main Dress; Male