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| - A man's coat of fawn-coloured silk. It has a round neck, bound with a narrow strip of silk. The sleeves are cut in two, shaped pieces, to fit loosely, ending above the wrist in a deep, curved, open cuffs - 24 cm deep at the front and 30 cm at the back. The coat fronts curve out from the neck over the chest, in below the waist and continue straight to the hem. The coat fronts are fitted to the torso to the hip, with wide skirts below it, set in 3 pleats (ca. 18 cm deep) front and back. There is an inverted pleat on each side of the centre back opening of the skirts. The horizontal pocket flaps are shaped in three lobes and placed at the hip level on the coat fronts. The coat, sleeves, pocket flaps and pockets are lined with light-brown silk, with a buckram interlining throughout, and added padding in the skirt pleats. There are 22 , brown linen-thread passementerie buttons on the right front and 22 buttonholes on the left front, worked in brown linen thread. Only the top 14 buttonholes are cut. There are 5 uncut buttonholes on the pocket flaps and corresponding buttons on the coat. There are 10 uncut buttonholes on each side of the centre back opening. Five uncut buttonholes decorate the top edge of the cuffs, sewn to the sleeve with corresponding buttons.
The coat was altered to enlarge it during its lifetime. The side seams were let out and triangular insertions added to the sleeve and sleeve lining on the underside at the armhole seam. (en)
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