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Smoking Jacket Front View

Jacket: Hughes & Muller Shirt: Cluette, Peabody & Co. Pants: Brooks Brothers

FIDM MUSEUM & GALLERIES

FIDM MUSEUM & GALLERIES
Los Angeles, United States

Jacket: Man’s silk satin twill smoking jacket with embroidery depicting wheat, daisies, flower buds, and leaves; shawl collar, cuffs, pockets, hip-level welt pockets and button tabs embroidered; 2 self covered buttons at either side of CF with tab at waist; lining in black silk with satin stripes. Label: "Hughes & Muller"
Date: 1880-85
Note: Seller believes that this jacket was purchased from an estate in Massachusetts; she acquired it at the Brimfield Antique Show.

Cap: Man's velvet smoking cap with soutache and tassels; round hat divided in five equal portions with lengths of silk cord; cord bow with tassels, fringe, and pom-poms at center top; edged in matching cord; velvet trimmed with concentric diamonds of silk braid applied in meandering lines; interior lined in off-white China silk.
Date: 1865-70
Note: Seller's tag indicates: From Hunt family, Gilford, N.H. (#1031)

Shirt: Man's shirt of cotton; collarless; overlapping buttonholes on standing band at neckline for stud; long sleeves gathered into French cuffs; square bib front with pintucks; four round MOP buttons down bib; shirt falls loose from bib in vertical slit; slit at each side of bottom shirt.
Label: "MARQUIS/ OF/ SALISBURY/ 16/34/627/T; ARROW/TRADE MARK/ CLUETTE, PEABODY & CO./U.S.A."
Date: c. 1900

Ascot; man's jacquard damask with repeating wave motif; unlined.
Date: 1875-1900

Hair jewelry stickpin with faceted red stones; gold metal oval setting; stones outline setting with glass covered compartment at center; blonde woven hair inside; thin pin attached at CB of setting; twist in metal at center of pin.
Date: 1820-50

Man's trousers of striped wool tweed; black plastic buttons stamped "BROOKS BROS. N.Y." sewn to self waistband; button fly; watch pocket at PR side; slit pocket at each hip; pants slightly full at upper leg and taper to ankle; crease at center of each leg at front and reverse; reverse has half belt with metal clasp stamped "BROOKS BROS. SOLIDE"; welt pocket at PR reverse; waistband lining of cotton twill; lining of polished cotton at upper portion of reverse.
Date: 1895-1905

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  • Title: Smoking Jacket Front View
  • Creator: Jacket: Hughes & Muller Shirt: Cluette, Peabody & Co. Pants: Brooks Brothers
  • Date Created: 1880/1885
  • Location Created: Jacket: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Cap: United States Shirt: Troy, New York Ascot: Europe or United States Stickpin: Probably United States Pants: New York, New York
  • Physical Dimensions: Jacket: CB: 31" Capt: H: 5" Shirt: CB: 34" Ascot: L: 49 1/2" Stickpin: L: 3 1/8" Pants: L: 43"
  • Provenance: Jacket, Cap & Shirt: FIDM Museum Purchase Ascot: Gift of the Napa County Historical Society Stickpin: Gift of Andrea Tice in memory of Carmelita Johnson Pants: Gift of Madge Baker
  • Type: Jacket, Cap, Shirt, Ascot, Stickpin, Pants
  • Medium: Jacket: Silk twill & silk embroidery floss Cap: Silk velvet, cotton soutache & silk tassels Shirt: Cotton & mother-of-pearl Ascot: Silk Jacquard Stickpin: Gold, garnet, human hair & glass Pants: Wool
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