Coat

This fashionable red wool frock coat of the 1780s is embroidered with tassels in silver-gilt thread on the cuffs, the points of the collar, and down the fronts. The buttons are worked in silver-gilt thread over a wooden core.

The most fashionable styles for men in this period featured coat fronts curving sharply back, a high turned-down collar, long tight sleeves. By the 1780s the side pleats had moved towards the centre back seam, and were much less voluminous than in previous decades.