About this object
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ID:
A7559
Production date:
1766-1775
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Location:
In Store
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This fawn-coloured coat and matching waistcoat (c. 1765-1775) are made of broad cloth, a woollen fabric woven on a wide loom. Broad cloth was not always of exactly the same width. The Universal Magazine recorded in 1764: 'Burstall is a little town, noted for the manufacture of a Broad-cloth, so called to distinguish it from kerseys, druggets, & though the cloths of this country are all called narrow at London, when compared with the broad-cloths made in the West of England'. < ...Read more
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Measurements
L 1100 mm (coat), L 770 mm (waistcoat), L 670 mm; C 370 mm (breeches), L 470 mm (skirt), C 1020 (chest), C 1005 mm (waist), C 1120 mm (hips), L 110 mm; C 290 mm (cuff)
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Materials
cloth; silver
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Last Updated
2024-03-14
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