breeches
date: label: Date made
content: 1750 - 1774
label: date made
content: 1765-1775
notes: label: Description
content: Fly-front breeches of light tan silk, woven tone-on-tone with repeat pattern of narrow corded straight and zig-zag stripes; cut with approximately 100 fork; fly was partially concealed by recessing a narrow curved flap with buttonholes behind the left edge of the front opening; 3 buttons on center-front waistband; two smaller buttons close the lower fly; self-covered buttons at the center-front, fly, and knee openings; pocket welt in right front waistband; each side pocket is concealed by a squared panel which fastens at the outer corner to a button on the waistband, just above the side seam; the upper edge of each half-waistband was pieced with a narrow strip of silk; a pair of linen-backed silk straps with buckle flank the triangular opening at center back of the waistband; waistband was extended at center back with a different weight of natural-colored linen, about 5 cm at each side of the opening; otherwise, breeches are fully lined with heavy natural-colored linen; pockets are fully enclosed between the lining and the outer fabrics; five self-covered buttons at each knee opening; each knee is finished with a 3.1 cm wide band; the band has a tapered 10 cm extension at the front edge of the leg opening, and is finished with a short tab with buttonhole on the back side of the leg; all outside edges (except on the panels that cover side pockets) are edge-stitched.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: used in
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Costume
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: From Mrs. Benjamin Ginsburg
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CS.293501.008
label: catalog number
content: 293501.008
label: accession number
content: 293501
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Breeches
label: Other Terms
content: Breeches; Lower Body; Main Dress; Male
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: waist (without gusset): 91 cm; x 35 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall length--at side: 68 cm; 26 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: pocket welt, waistband: 2.3 cm x 9 cm; 7/8 in x 3 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cb: 6.5 cm; 2 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, side: 11 cm; 4 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: waistband width, cf: 13.5 cm; 5 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: gusset, cb, length (spread edge): 12 cm; 4 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, cf: 2 cm; x 13/16 in
label: Measurements
content: buttons, knee, fly, and side pocket: 1.4 cm; x 9/16 in
label: Measurements
content: leg opening: 20 cm; 7 7/8 in
label: Measurements
content: button span, leg opening: 14.5 cm; 5 11/16 in