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Man's Vestcirca 1795

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Embroidered cream waistcoat on a dress form, with chartreuse lattice and heart motifs and small lavender floral sprigs across the front

Unknown, Man's Vest, circa 1795, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Stephanie Kline Morehouse, Photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Man's Vest
Place Made
England
Date Made
circa 1795
Medium
Cotton plain weave with supplementary-warp and -weft patterning and silk embroidery
Dimensions
Center back length: 23 1/8 in. (58.74 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Stephanie Kline Morehouse
Accession Number
M.82.12.2
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • 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.

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