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Coat, Frock

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Entirely hand-stitched small boy’s frock coat made of dark green camblet. Opens down the front with a concealed hook closure to the waist. Full circular skirt splits into tails in the back with false pocket flaps. Pocket flaps along the waist. Long sleeves with fairly large fullness gathered into the armscyes, pointed pieces forming a turned-back cuff effect. Skirt lined with brown cotton. Body with a brown frill. High round neckline bound with black silk-like button fabric. No side body seams. Fairly high normal waist. Skirt to knees. Small ‘buttons’ straight up the front and in a diagonal line toward each shoulder; on each tail flap and cuff, they seem to have been made of unstiffened circles of soft black silk satin--applied like buttons. There does not seem to have been a belt worn with it. There are ‘buttons’ at the waist level.

G2007.017

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Child, Male

Historic Costume

Coat

Male

Camel’s Hair

Cotton

Green

White

1828 - 1830

American

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