jacket
date: label: Date made
content: 1700 - 1799
label: Date made
content: 1700 to 1799
label: date made
content: ca. 1825
label: stylistic appearance
content: 1725-1745
notes: label: Description
content: Jacket or sleeved waistcoat with round neck, collarless, turnback cuffs, made from yellow wool damask, lined with plainweave cotton, edged with green wool binding tape (3 different types), shoulder seams embellished with wool plush "epaulets." The decorative button loops are graduated in size on the garment front. Closure was with a single working button hole at the top of the center front. None of the other button loops were cut, nor is there evidence of hook and eye closures for the front. The pocketflaps are also decorative and lined with the same plainweave cotton as the garment interior. Six large round metal buttons with stamped and engraved decoration (silver gilt copper by eye, testing tbd) were once attached to the garment with a round single shank. All stitching and assembly done by hand, most in plied linen thread (on the interior) with overcast raw edges and running stitches. The braid was applied with dark green thread in a loose running stitch through the lining. The buttons were once stitched directly to the garment in the same dark thread and later stabilized with a dark brown thread. The garment has experienced extreme light damage and fading (the original bright yellow of the damask is visible where the buttons were once attached and in the seams). The jacket is a vaguely livery-style coat or a sleeved waistcoat with unusual embellishments (loosely resembling a Dutch hemdrok) that appear similar to garments from the early eighteenth century. But the garment also exhibits an odd combination of cotton lining, large metallic buttons that stylistically date to the third quarter of the eighteenth century, woven tape that resembles hem tape from the early nineteenth century, and an unusual epaulet of deeply piled wool plush, all of which indicate the strong possibility that this garment was created in the early nineteenth century from earlier pieces, possibly as fancy dress. Additional research is necessary.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of E. Leslie Byrnes, Jr.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.252053.001
label: catalog number
content: 252053.001
label: accession number
content: 252053
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Jacket
label: Other Terms
content: Jacket; Upper Body; Main Dress; Male