Pants

Clothing/Dress/Costume

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Genesee Country Village & Museum

Name/Title

Pants

Entry/Object ID

G2003.161

Description

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.

Collection

Bruce and Susan Greene Costume Collection

Category

Child, Male
Historic Costume

Clothing/Dress/Costume Details

Article of Clothing/Dress/Costume

Pants

Clothing Sex

Male

Textile Details

Fabric

Cotton

Color

White, Blue

Made/Created

Date made

1800

Ethnography

Culture/Tribe

American