Overpants
Date:
1880s
Medium:
Commercial cloth (imported velvet), 8 pieces machine-stitched, 2 pockets on front with flaps, 4 buttons on front of waistband, back of waistband drawn closed with a string of plant fiber, pants heavily embroidered with silk thread, lined with commercial cotton and wool cloth inside, outer edges trimmed with silk cloth on inside.
Weft and Weft
silk, green
Embroidery: spun silk, 2-ply, multiple singles, white, yellow, rose-red, red (synthetic), ivory, purple (synthetic), violet, red-orange, aqua, gold, orange, pink; faded green, magenta, medium blue.
Dimensions:
27.9 × 81.3 × 94 cm (11 × 32 × 37 inches)
Credit Line:
Gift of Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Object number:
1933.03.009
Cut-and-sew garment. Inner red wool lining serves as background for hand sewn zigzags, giving applique effect. A finely made and very worn garment. Three buttons on waistband are of metal alloy, one of shell. Top right side of pants hand-stitched closed. Faded colors on outside, inside is bright. Red and purple silk dyed with synthetic.
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