Man's Waistcoat

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Man's Waistcoat

France, 1750-1770
Costumes; !Primary
Silk satin with silk- and metallic-thread supplementary-weft patterning and metallic thread-wrapped buttons
Center back length: 30 1/2 in. (77.47 cm)
Gift of the Pacific Palisades Girl Scouts #35 (66.2)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Velvets East and West:  From the 14th to the 20th Century.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966.
  • Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.