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.

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