suit & tunic & jacket & breeches


suit & tunic & jacket & breeches

Summary

Boy's tunic suit. Pale blue silk satin, lined with silk. 1) Jacket: square neck, fastening with hooks and worked bars on right shoulder. Concealed fastening at right front, pearl buttons. Pocket flaps at each side. Back in two sections, flared. Long sleeves gathered at shoulder, shaped cuffs. Crocheted white cotton collar. Three facet-cut steel buttons each side of CF, three buttons on each cuff. 2) Breeches: lined, seamed, in four sections. Gathered onto knee band with steel buckle, fasteninng with hooks and worked bars; concealed opening at front below waist, fastening with four pearl buttons. Pocket in right side seam, vertical buttonhole at waist each side of front and back, cloth-covered button each side of front and back.


Object Name

suit & tunic & jacket & breeches

Date Created

1900-1905

Dimensions

1) circumference (hem): 123.2cm
1) shoulder: 27.3cm
2) length (inner leg): 27.9cm
2) length (outer leg): 45.7cm
1) length: 55.9cm
2) waist: 68.6cm

accession number

1969.82

Medium

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