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| Culture: | textile: English; garment: American
| | Title: | waistcoat
| | Date Made: | 1770-1790
| | Type: | Clothing
| | Materials: | textile: yellow silk floss (embroidery); white plain weave linen; ink
| | Place Made: | textile: United Kingdom; Great Britain: England; Great Britain: Greater London, London; garment: United States; Massachusetts; Hadley
| | Measurements: | Center Back - CB: 22 3/4 in; 57.8 cm
| | Accession Number: | HD 2017.30.4
| | Credit Line: | Gift of the Cooley Family, Hartford, Connecticut, direct descendants of Col. Elisha Porter
| | Museum Collection: | Historic Deerfield
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Description:
Boy’s white linen waistcoat embellished with yellow silk embroidery in a scattered, all-over pattern of floral springs. The waistcoat was altered from an older, adult man's waistcoat, no longer worn either because of age or when it was no longer fashionable. With a history of ownership to the family of Elisha Porter (1742-1796) of Hadley, Massachusetts, it is an important example of a late 18th-century children's garment updated from an earlier, adult style, owned and worn in the Connecticut River Valley. The shape of the pocket flaps may suggest a German origin for the garment.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Embroidery; Linen; Silk Link to share this object record:
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