lounge suit

Rowland W Baker

Summary

3-piece lounge suit in mottled brown wool, narrowly pinstriped in white. Jacket, SB, fastening high with 3 buttons, and with narrow collar and revers. Side pockets with flaps stitched down, 3 buttons cuffs, cb seam, side seams, sdie front darts. Lined fawn ribbed cotton/rayon sateen with 2 inner pockets, one with inner label "Rowland W Baker, Castle St, Liverpool; handwritten 15.6.42; L G Burgon Esq" Waistcoat, SB, fastening with 5 mock tortoiseshell buttons, pointed fronts, pockets each side cf with darts below. Back of fawn cotton/rayon sateen; lined cotton satin in cream/maroon pinstripe. Trousers, cut wide with 20 inch bottoms, turn-ups, slanted side pockets, no waistband, 6 buttons around waist for braces (brown plastic stamped "R W Baker and SOns, L'Pool"), right back buttoning pocket, buttoning front fly, waist peaking cb with small vent, waist faced with shirting (matching waistcoat lining); pocket linings in stiff pale-blue cotton.