Waistcoat Date: Culture: British Medium: silk, wool, cotton Dimensions: Length at CB: 25 in. cm) Credit Line: Purchase, Gifts in memory of Paul Ettesvold, 1988 Accession Number:
Waistcoat Date: ca. 1740 Culture: British Medium: linen, silk Dimensions: Length at CB: 33 in. cm) Credit Line: Gift of Catherine Van Bomel Gift Fund, 1978 Accession Number:
Waistcoat, England or France, Green silk satin with silk and silver thread embroidery and gold sequins. You can see the fashion for shortness and straight hems. Also very neat around the Scye and straight-angled cut collar.
"This waistcoat fragment could have been produced with 2 printings, an initial one to achieve the red and black, and a second one to apply the blue, making a relatively cheap and easy fabric to produce.