Description:
Man’s single-breasted waistcoat featuring a standing collar, straight hem ending just below the waistline, and two welt pockets. The waistcoat secures down the center front with brass shank buttons and corresponding worked buttonholes. Evidence suggests this garment was remade from an earlier, double-breasted waistcoat. The waistcoat was enlarged, and made single breasted from a former double breasted style. The waistcoat was very likely part of the military uniform worn by Colonel Elisha Porter (1742-1796) of Hadley, Massachusetts. As such, it is an important example of a late 18th-century officer's uniform owned and worn in the Connecticut River Valley. The waistcoat's matching fabric to a pair of extant breeches (2017.30.7) suggests they were worn together as part of Porter's uniform in the late 1780s or early 1790s.

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