Three-piece Suitcirca 1765

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Title: Three-piece Suit
Place Made: England
Date Made: circa 1765
Medium: Silk cut velvet on plain-weave ground with tie-resist-dyed pile warp (chiné) and self-weft patterning
Dimensions: A) Center back length: 42 1/4 in. (107.315 cm); B) Center back length: 21 in. (53.34 cm); C) Inseam length: 16 1/4 in. (41.275 cm)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Suzanne A. Saperstein and Michael and Ellen Michelson, with additional funding from the Costume Council, the Edgerton Foundation, Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer, Maureen H. Shapiro, Grace Tsao, and Lenore and Richard Wayne
Accession Number: M.2007.211.798a-c
Classification: Costumes
Collecting Area: Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography: Takeda, Sharon Sadako, Kaye Durland Spilker, and Clarrisa M. Esguerra. Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear, 1715-2015. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.