Man's Pants

Clothing/Dress/Costume

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Man's Pants

Entry/Object ID

CW 663

Description

Trousers. Man's Nankeen Britches. Front flap; covered buttons, knee band fastened with buttons. Worn by John Johnson in 1812. Good condition. Shown in Costume Museum May 1960 to December 1960. Written in waistband: "2 / John Johnson / 1812." Pattern and photographs in Rural Pennsylvania Clothing by Ellen J. Gehret, pp. 133-145. See also: Historic Dress in America by Elisabeth McClellan, Figure 312 (with coat #662 and vest #664). Transcribed from original accession record.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Objects

Made/Created

Place

* Untyped Place

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Provenance

Notes

Nankeen, also called Nankeen cloth, is a kind of pale yellowish cloth, originally made at Nanjing from a yellow variety of cotton, but subsequently manufactured from ordinary cotton which is then dyed. Also in the plural a piece or variety of this cloth. (Source: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nankeen)