一件18世紀古董男裝外套細節的展示

Hi, it's Christina. Today we are looking at some beautiful pieces of 18th century costume together that I have the pleasure of showing you today for this video and it is this wonderful two-piece suit here next to me Just a short intro to go with that I have purchased this suit a few years ago at an antique store in London from a French dealer and without knowing much about where it originally came from however, we were extremely lucky and in the very very roomy pockets of this coat we found some original documents which actually enabled us to date this baby pretty exactly and I'm going to show you them in a moment and of course, this beautiful amazing piece of history up close and personal And here we are The suit is made from short silk taffeta in seafoam green and rust and we have some lovely pipe buttonholes here and matching breeches So whilst the suit itself is not in incredible condition so it's not a pristine museum piece What is pretty incredible is the documents that were found in the pocket of this coat So as mentioned, the suit was purchased by myself in London from a French dealer and here we have the documents So this is an invite to an agricultural fete and it is addressed to the president of the Tribunal Correctionnel So I'm not quite sure what exactly that is and his colleagues and the party is taking place in Brignoles in the southeast of France which is the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and it's dated to the 9th Messe d'Or of the year 6 Messe d'Or is the harvest month of the French Revolutionary Calendar and that translates to the 27th of June 1798 and in addition, we found a handwritten letter from a prisoner who is writing to a relative with instructions for items to bring to him to present So yeah, that is pretty incredible and here we are up close So as you can see, there's lots of beautiful little hand stitching here We have ten buttons here that are worked on little wooden discs and here we see the cream silk lining and also a partial linen lining You can see that there's an interlining under here, under the button area to strengthen the buttons and yeah, the collar region is not really in great condition And this is the inside of the four-piped buttonholes and you can see the lovely shade of the short silk here This is the inside of the cuff and this is actually the fabric selvedge you see there with a stripe and we can find that quite a lot on the insides of the suit which yeah, tells me that obviously they used every single bit of this fabric to avoid waste Yeah, the suit is pretty stained as you can see A little bit shredded here But yeah, that at least enables us to look inside We're looking at the back now You can see these lovely back pleats here that are stitched down and have like a wooden button at the top of each And it's got pretty deep pockets actually Very, very, very deep So maybe that is why the documents have never been discovered And this is stitched shut here with a little button Yeah, the back of the collar looks particularly gnarly I have no idea what those stains are If they came from storage or just from use I have no idea And here are the matching breeches And these breeches are a mystery to me Because I don't know if there's like parts of this missing or something But to this very day I have not figured out how they would have originally closed There's a little watch pocket So you can see that there's buttonholes on either side of that waistband So I do not know how that would have fastened originally Or if a piece is missing I just don't know If you know, feel free to tell me Because I sure would like to find that out There's a knee band here I don't know if they originally fastened with a button that's missing or a buckle or whatever And I'm going to unbutton that and fold it down So you can see the pockets There's a lovely linen lining The breeches are fully lined, by the way, all the way down And here's the inside There's the back of the silk And you can see that is a full linen lining there And yeah, here is the mystery button closure And here's the back of the breeches And there's probably the buckle or buttons or whatever missing that originally fastened the back of this waistband There's a buttonhole there that's made of linen And then there's the selvage of the fabric