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Suit, Skeleton

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Entirely hand-stitched suit made of indigo blue cotton with tiny discharge white dots. High-waisted top with V-neck. Single-breasted with long tubular sleeves. Long narrow pants with side openings. The inside of the top is reinforced with a heavy tow linen strip at the ‘waist’ to receive domed brass-capped bone buttons, the early kind with catgut cross threads for attachment to the garment. Three buttons down the front (the bottom one is hidden by the pants); two on each side and three in the back. One button each on the center edge of the triangular extension which wraps the top of pants toward the back for a neat look in front. Pants have had long triangular inserts installed into the inseam to give a little more leg room. The top front of the pants is lined with two shades of blue linen.

G2001.082ab

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Child, Male

Historic Costume

Suit

Male

Cotton

Gray

1810 - 1820

2

Top - G2001.082a Bottom - G2001.082b

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