waistcoat
date: label: Date made
content: 1745 - 1755
name: label: associated place
content: Great Britain
notes: label: Description
content: Bright red (cochineal dyed?) wool; full-length set-in sleeves, with a finished 4.75" opening at the wrist along the outer seam; round, slightly raised neckline; embroidered with couched gold metallic serpentine border, and vine with trefoil leaves, along fronts, buttonholes, pocket flaps, and base; two double-scallop pocket flaps; large gilt brass-over-wood buttons with floral motif in relief; ten buttons are at center front, and three buttons are at each pocket; waistcoat has full skirt, with 9.75" vents at side and center back seams; lined to edge with natural-colored linen twill and natural-colored wool twill; waistcoat black, and right forearm patch, of red flannel.
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 Charles B. H. Jackson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0399.0090
label: accession number
content: 1980.0399
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0399.090
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Waistcoat
label: Other Terms
content: Waistcoat; Upper Body; Main Dress; Male; Army; Officer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: red (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: center back: 27 in; 68.58 cm