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Shirt

Collection Type

  • Clothing and accessories

Date

1860-1870

GUSN

GUSN-12034

Description

Dark rose faded to cocoa brown; wool flannel; dark green wool tape edging collar, cuffs, front placket and yoke; green tape scrolls on yoke and collar; green tape outlining shoulder seams, placket, & yoke; 4 shell buttons in placket, 2 in cufffs; 2 small pockets in center of scrolls on yoke; body gathered to shoulder yoke in back; yellow top-stitching around hem; yellow top stitching on all green wool tape.

Details

Descriptive Terms

shirts
flannel
stitching
machine-made
shell (animal material)
wool (textile)
scrolls (motifs)
shell (animal material)
Men's clothing
Flannel
Hand Stitched
Scroll
Shell
SHIRT

Additional Identification Number

92-315
WHS 461

People and Organizations

Judge Edmund Hatch Bennett

Maker

Unknown

Credit Line

Gift of Weston Historical Society

Accession Number

1993.327

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