Coat, Frock

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Genesee Country Village & Museum

Name/Title

Coat, Frock

Entry/Object ID

G2007.017

Description

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.

Collection

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Category

Child, Male
Historic Costume

Clothing/Dress/Costume Details

Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume

Coat

Clothing Sex

Male

Textile Details

Fabric

Camel’s Hair

Lining

Cotton

Color

Green, White

Made/Created

Date made

1828 - 1830

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

American