breeches
date: label: Date made
content: 1775-1785
label: date made
content: 1765-1775
name: label: user?
content: Palmer, Noyes
notes: label: Description
content: Black wool twill, fully lined with (tow?) linen; forked construction; narrow splayed fall is seamed at center front and fastens with two buttons; waistband fastens with three black (composition?) buttons at center front and two pairs of eyelets at center back, above a spread "V" shaped opening in the CB seam; there is a small pocket at each side of the fall; each knee fastens with four self-covered truncated dome buttons and a pair of straps; one knee strap is blunt, with a buttonhole, and the other is pointed; the buttonhole side of each knee opening is faced with dark brown linen
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: 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: 1989.0428.012
label: accession number
content: 1989.0428
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0428.012
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Breeches
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall length-at side seam: 55 cm; 21 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width (upper edge, straight): 9.5 cm; x 3 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: fall width (lower edge): 22.5 cm; x 8 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: fall depth-along center seam: 12.5 cm; x 4 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: pockets, waistband, max dimensions: 10 cm x 12 cm; x 3 15/16 in x 4 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: opening, cb seam at waistband: 13.5 cm; 5 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: spread, opening in cb waist seam: 13 cm; x 5 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: buttonholes, fall: 3.5 cm; x 1 3/8 in
label: Measurements
content: button diameter, knee: 1.7 cm; x 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waist circumference (w/o gusset): 76 cm; x 29 15/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width-side seam, on fold: 8.5 cm; 3 3/8 in