Male Dress - Waistcoats

8/11/2019 Male Dress - Waistcoats

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English Linen, Silk, & Metallic Thread Sleaved Waistcoat

Early 18th Century(Metropolitan Museum of Art)


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English Unmade Embroidered Tabby Linen Sleeved Waistcoat

c, 1700(Colonial Williamsburg)


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English Sleeved Silk Needlework Waistcoat

c. 1700 - 1720(Colonial Williamsburg)


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English Sleeved Silk Brocade Waistcoat



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American Cotton & Linen Sleeved Waistcoat

c, 1740 - 1745(Connecticut Historical Society)


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American Cotton & Linen Sleeved Waistcoat

c, 1740 - 1745(Connecticut Historical Society)


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English Silk Sleeved Waistcoat

c, 1725 - 1750(Metropolitan Museum of Art)


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English Silk Sleeved Waistcoat



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English Silk & Wool Waistcoat

c, 1730(Metropolitan Museum of Art)


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English White Needlework Waistcoat

c. 1730 - 1740 (Altered c. 1750 - 1765)(Colonial Williamsburg)


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French Sleeved Silk Brocaded Waistcoat

c, 1730 (With 19th Century Alterations)(Colonial Williamsburg)


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European Silk Velvet Waistcoat Fragments

c, 1730 - 1750(Colonial Williamsburg)


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English Sleeved Gilt Needlework Silk Satin Waistcoat

c. 1740(Colonial Williamsburg)


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Shirts

English Silk & Linen Waistcoat

c. 1740(Metropolitan Museum of Art)


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Shirts




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English Linen & Cotton Sleeved Waistcoat



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Shirts

Ivory Cotton Front Embroidered Waistcoat Panels

c. 1740s(Private Collection)


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English or European Brocaded Silk Waistcoat



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French Voided Velvet Suit Waistcoat



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English Brown Silk Waistcoat with Metallic Trim



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English Silk Sleeved Waistcoatc, 1742

(Metropolitan Museum of Art)


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English Yellow Satin Waistcoat with Metallic Trim



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English Plum Silk Waistcoat with Applied Linen Hexagonal Net



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English Silk and Metal Embroidery Sleeved Waistcoat



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English Quilted Silk Sleeved Waistcoat

c. 1750 - 1759(Winterthur)


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English Embroidered and Red Velvet Waistcoat with Shag Lining

c, 1750(Colonial Williamsburg)


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French Waistcoatc, 1750

(Los Angeles County Museum of Art)


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French Silk Waistcoat

c, 1750 - 1775(Cooper Hewitt - Smithsonian)


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European / French Crewel Needlework Waistcoat



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Virginian Waistcoat Made from English Silk & Linen



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Silk Sleeved Waistcoat

Mid 18th Century(Private Collection - ebay)


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English Sleeved Quilted Satin Waistcoatc. 1750 - 1780

(Colonial Williamsburg)


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A Silk Waistcoat with Linen Sleeves that were Added at a Later Date

c. 1760(Private Collection)


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English Linen & Cotton Waistcoat for Matching Banyanc, 1760



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Double Breasted Waistcoat c. 1760 - 1770

(Snowshill Wade Costume Collection, Gloucestershire)


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English Silver and Green Tissue Waistcoatc. 1760 - 1770



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English Silk Suit Waistcoat with Metallic Trimmed Buttonholesc. 1760 - 1780



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Rhode Island Waistcoat of Chinese Imported Damaskc. 1765 = 1775



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English Brocaded Green Silk Waistcoatc, 1765 - 1775



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European Brocaded & Embroidered Silk Satin Waistcoat with a Boston Historyc, 1765 - 1775



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English Brocaded Silver Tissue Waistcoatc. 1765 - 1780



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English Silk & Linen Waistcoatc. 1765 - 1780



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American Striped Worsted Wool Waistcoat with Checked Linen Back & Lining, Possibly from Connecticutc, 1770

(Don Troiani Collection, Photograph Courtesy Henry Cooke)


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English Yellow Satin Embroidered Waistcoatc, 1770



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European / French Embroidered Silk Suit Waistcoatc, 1770



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Calico Waistcoat Fragmentc, 1770 - 1790



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European / French Sheer Cotton over Pink Silk Waistcoatc, 1770 - 1780



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English or European Metallic and Paste Embroidered Silk Satin Waistcoatc, 1770 - 1780



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English Voided Velvet Suit Waistcoatc. 1770 - 1785



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French Cotton Waistcoatc, 1770 - 1790



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French Cotton Waistcoatc, 1770 - 1790



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American Embroidered Linen Waistcoatc, 1770 - 1780

(Philadelphia Museum of Art)


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European Embroidered and Quilted Silk Satin Waistcoatc, 1770

(Fine Arts Museum San Francisco)


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English or French Green Silk Needlework Waistcoatc, 1770 - 1785



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English Plate Printed Linen Tabby Waistcoatc. 1770 - 1785



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English Green Velvet Waistcoat with Orange Silk Backc, 1770 - 1790



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English or French Silk Needlework Waistcoatc. 1770 - 1790



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French Embroidered Ribbed Silk Waistcoat Frontsc. 1775



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French Silk Waistcoatc, 1775 - 1780



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English or European Silk Chain Stitch on Silk Waistcoatc, 1775 - 1790



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American Striped Linen Sleeved Waistcoat Reputedly Worn by Col. Joseph Noyes at the Battle of Rhode Islandc, 1778

(Rhode Island Historical Society - Photograph by Conservator Dierdre Windsor)


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(Rhode Island Historical Society - Photograph Courtesy Henry Cooke)


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Cuff Button




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American Linen Waistcoat from ConnecticutWorn by Colonel William Ledyard When He was Killed by a British Officer at Fort Griswold on Sept. 6, 1781

(Connecticut Historical Society)


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American Boys Unlined Linen Waistcoat from Connecticutc. 1770 - 1779



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American Silk Waistcoat Attributed to John Hancockc. 1780

(New York Historical Society)


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American Silk Waistcoat Attributed to John Hancockc. 1780

(Lexington Historical Society)


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American or English Silk Waistcoatc. 1770 - 1780



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American Cotton & Linen Waistcoat Owned by Colonel Samuel Talcott from Connecticutc. 1770 - 1780



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American Cotton & Linen Waistcoat Owned by Colonel Samuel Talcott from Connecticutc. 1770 - 1780



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American Silk Waistcoat Owned by Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth from Connecticutc. 1784



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American Silk Waistcoat Owned by Colonel Jeremiah Wadsworth from Connecticutc. 1784



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Linen Unlined WaistcoatLate 18th Century

(New York State Museum - Photo by Paul Dickfoss)


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Linen Unlined WaistcoatLate 18th Century

(New York State Museum - Photo by Paul Dickfoss)


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European Silk & Wool Waistcoat2nd Half 18th Century



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European Silk WaistcoatLate 18th Century



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French Silk Waistcoat PanelMid to Late 18th Century

(Cooper Hewitt - Smithsonian)


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French Silk Waistcoat FrontLate 18th Century



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Salesman Sample: Uncut French Silk WaistcoatLate 18th Century



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Salesman Sample: Uncut French Silk WaistcoatLate 18th Century



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French EmbroidererDenis Diderot 1750


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French Red Wool & Linen Waistcoatc. 1780

(Whitaker Auctions)


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(Whitaker Auctions)


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American Wool & Linen Waistcoat Owned by Munson Hoyt of Connecticutc. 1785 - 1790



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Colonel John Purves and His Wife, Eliza Ann Pritchardby Henry Benbridge c. 1775 - 1777

(Winterthur)


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Printed Linen Waistcoat Belt18th Century(Winterthur)


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Powder Horn Detail - Carried by Corporal William Fleming of Virginia, 1st Artillery, at Valley Forgec. 1782


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by Jean Baptiste Antoine de Verger 1781(Ann S.K. Brown Collection, Brown University)


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John Cuff & His Assistantby Johan Zofanny 1772

(The Royal Collection)


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John Cuff & His Assistantby Johan Zofanny 1772(The Royal Collection)


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John Cuff & His Assistantby Johan Zofanny 1772(The Royal Collection)


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Recreated Knit or Stocking Sleeved WaistcoatBased on Runaway Ads Mentioning Stockings for Sleeves

(Jay Howlett - Colonial Williamsburg)


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A servant butcher from Kent County, Maryland, "with stockings for sleeves to hisjacket," (Pennsylvania Gazette, March 28, 1765).

A servant from Uwchland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, wearing a "blue

and white striped jacket, with old blue stockings for sleeves," (Pennsylvania Gazette,January 19, 1769).

A supposed servant from Culpeper, Virginia, wearing a "blue waistcoat with stockingsfor sleeves," (Virginia Gazette, March 22, 1770).

A slave from Westfield, New Jersey, wearing a "white woolen waistcoat with stockingsleeves," (The New Jersey Journal, May 10, 1770; page 14 here).

Two convict servants from Elk-Ridge, Maryland, wearing "an old flannel ditto [jacket],with black stocking sleeves" and "an old flannel ditto [jacket], with grey stockingsleeves," (Virginia Gazette, September 20, 1770).
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A convict servant from Langford Bay, Maryland, wearing "a brown vest, with stockingsleeves," (Pennsylvania Gazette, April 4, 1771).

A servant from Charles Town, Maryland, wearing "a striped linsey ditto [jacket], withblue stocking sleeves," (Pennsylvania Gazette, December 23, 1772).

A servant from Brandywine Hundred, Delaware, wearing "an old blue cloth jacket, withstocking sleeves, of near the same colour," (Pennsylvania Gazette, August 2, 1775).

A servant from Chester County, Pennsylvania wearing a "light coloured cloth coat, withblue stockings for sleeves in it," (Pennsylvania Gazette, July 7, 1784).

A probable servant from York[town], Pennsylvania, wearing "a kind of hunting shirtwith grey yarn stocking sleeves," (Carlisle Gazette, May 29, 1787)


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British Primary Descriptions of Stocking Sleeves

(Source: "The British Newspaper Archive")

An apprentice currier of Southampton, wearing "a short Waistcoat, with the Leggingsof a Pair of Blue Stockings for Sleeves," (The Hampshire Chronicle, March 22, 1773)

A man from Morcot, Rutland, "deranged in his intellects" wearing "a brown Fustian

Jacket with Greased Stocking Sleeves," (Lincoln, Rutland, and Stamford Mercury, June6, 1800).


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Regimental Orders 9th July 1777Sir Henry Calder desires a Return may begiven in of the No. of Caps wanting in EachCompany - The men are not to wear theirHatts or Coats on any Account; they are toput Sleves to their Waistcoats out of OldStockings or Such other Stuf (the(y) can)procure

(The 49th and 1st Brigade may have been inthe process of embarkation.)

49th Regiment of Foot Orderly Book.Captured British Orderly Book, June 25, 1777- Sept. 10, 1777." Library of Congress, GeorgeWashington Papers Series 6. Military Papers.1755-1798. Battalion Company Officer, H.M. 49th Regiment of Foot

by Gerard van der Puyl c. 1770 - 1775(Bennington Museum)


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Male Dress - Waistcoats