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Coat, Frock

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Partly machine-stitched and hand-finished. Machine topstitching on all edges. Straight cut. Knee-length coat made of brown wool on cotton warp, napped. The center back and side back seams. Narrow collar and short lapel, single-breasted with 4 thin disk buttons covered with black fabric, between waist and throat. No waist. Full skirts in front but tails and waist seam in back, 2 more buttons at the center back waist. Welt pocket in front at each hip. Another angled one on the left front body, brown lining cambric pocket bags. Very wide 2-piece ‘coat’ (lobster-claw) sleeves lined with coarse white lining cambric. Body lined with black twilled Italian quilted over batting around the sides and front.

G2007.043

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Adult, Male

Historic Costume

Coat

Male

Wool

Glazed Cotton

Brown

1860 - 1870

American

Massachusetts

United States of America

North America

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