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Breeches1790s

Not on view
Museum mannequin dressed in late 18th-century men's costume: olive striped tailcoat, horizontally striped waistcoat, teal cravat, buff knee breeches with pink ribbon ties, pale ribbed stockings, and dark flat shoes; holding a gnarled walking stick
Full-length view of an 18th-century men's ensemble on a white mannequin wearing a powdered wig: brown striped silk coat with decorative buttons, cream patterned waistcoat, knee-length breeches in pale tan, white stockings, and black buckled shoes.
Late 18th-century men's ensemble displayed on a mannequin: brown striped tailcoat with embroidered buttons, cream patterned waistcoat, white lace cravat and cuffs, buff knee breeches, white stockings, and black buckled shoes.
Title
Breeches
Place Made
France
Date Made
1790s
Medium
Cotton plain weave
Dimensions
inseam: 17 3/4 in. (45.09 cm); side seam: 28 1/2 in. (72.39 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.2007.211.1082
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Deux Siècles de Mode Européenne, 1700-1915. Paris: Arts Décoratifs; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books-Prestel, 2013.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Delmonico Books/Prestel, 2010.
  • Takeda, Sharon Sadako and Kaye Durland Spilker. Fashioning Fashion: Europäische Moden, 1700-1915. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: Prestel, 2012.
  • 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.

  • Bowles, Hamish. "The Hamish Files: Exhibition Dressing." Vogue 206, no.4 (April 2016): 144, 253.

  • Chrisman-Campbell, Kimberly. "Reigning Men." Ornament 39, no.1 (2016): 34-39.