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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