Description:
Boy's everyday, fall-front trousers made of heavy-patterned linen twill and with bone buttons. They would have been sturdy; withstood boiling and strong laundry soaps; and had the added advantage of being highly stylish.
Label Text:
Celebrating the Fiber Arts 2008: Knee breeches were a style that had been in vogue throughout most of the 18th century. During the last two decades, it was children’s dress that set the fashion and little boys started to wear long, narrow-legged trousers. During the first years of the 19th century, men’s trousers were cut
to fit the body and this example would have been worn with almost knee-high boots called “Hessian
boots.” The vertical ribbed linen emphasized the fashionable columnar shape and could be washed, boiled and bleached to the desirable pristine white that had become popular.
Subjects:
Textile fabrics; Linen Link to share this object record:
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