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Pants

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Entirely hand-stitched trousers made of loosely woven plain-woven cotton with widely spaced brown / blue pinstripes with very pale orange or lavender-blue pinstripes in between — siamoise? Pieced. All seams were stitched with linen and felled with fine pink silk. Each leg is cut on grain but one is angled downward at the center front of the waist to produce bias in the crotch area. Leg ends self-bound; reinforcing strip sewn over the lower 2” of the inseam. Wide ‘waistband’ of a single layer of rough cotton with its selvage as a finish on the top. No placket or opening anywhere.

G2003.161

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Child, Male

Historic Costume

Pants

Male

Cotton

White

Blue

1800

American

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