waistcoat fragments
date: label: Date made
content: 1700 - 1770
label: Date made
content: 1700 to 1770
label: date made
content: 1740-1760
notes: label: Description
content: Man's disassembled waistcoat of off-white silk twill, embroidered all over with large-scale Jacobean multicolor flowers; 3-pieces (2 foreparts, 1 detached left pocket flap); very long skirt with straight center front edges and slightly curved base; double-scallop pocket flap on right forepart remains in place; 16 slightly domed wooden buttons, covered with gold-colored metal, with raised six-petal flower motif; six buttonholes, beginning at mid-chest and ending just below waist; edges bound with orange-pink silk; lined with natural linen; back missing.
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 Raymond Sumner Mentzer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.281704.001
label: catalog number
content: 281704.001
label: accession number
content: 281704
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Waistcoat Fragments
label: Other Terms
content: Waistcoat Fragments; Upper Body; Main Dress; Male