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This is an extremely rare “middling sort,” or middle class, coat of the mid-eighteenth century in an attractive color. Clothing wealthier people survive more often than those of the ordinary men and women who defined the era.
The date is evident in the tailoring. The large cuffs, wide small of the back, and gradual cut back across the belly suggest a Revolutionary Era date. The collar was originally a 1770s-style tab color, but in the 1780s or 1790s it was converted to a rise-and-fall collar for the fashion of that time. If you lift the collar up, you will see the earlier collar integrated into it. It is lined with Beetled linen, a fabric commonly seen on the interior of flame stitch wallets.
This is an extremely rare “middling sort,” or middle class, coat of the mid-eighteenth century in an attractive color. Clothing wealthier people survive more often than those of the ordinary men and women who defined the era.
The date is evident in the tailoring. The large cuffs, wide small of the back, and gradual cut back across the belly suggest a Revolutionary Era date. The collar was originally a 1770s-style tab color, but in the 1780s or 1790s it was converted to a rise-and-fall collar for the fashion of that time. If you lift the collar up, you will see the earlier collar integrated into it. It is lined with Beetled linen, a fabric commonly seen on the interior of flame stitch wallets.