Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- a) White shirt with narrow beige, red, yellow and green stripes running down the center of the front and back and also around cuffs. On the collar, stripes and raised bands cross to form a plaid-like pattern
- b) White pants with narrow red, yellow and green stripes. Raised red bands and bands in purple, green and pink cross the stripes to form a plaid-like pattern similar to the collar of the man's shirt
- c) White sash with red section at either end. Groups of warp stripes in red, yellow and green. Cross spaced groups of weft band in red.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Date
- 20th century
- Credit Line
- Gift of Alan L. Wolfe
- Medium
- Medium: cotton Technique (a & b): warp-faced plain weave patterned by warp stripes and supplementary weft (some of which are brocaded) to produce surface bands of dense weft-faced plain weave by grouping selected warps of one shed Technique (c): plain weave, stripes alternating warp-faced and balanced (or predominantly warp-faced) patterned by warp stripes (in warp-faced areas) and weft bands (which show in the balanced or less warp-faced areas)
- Dimensions
- a) Shirt (cuff to cuff): 132 cm; b) Trousers (waist): 44 cm x 86 cm (waist to cuff); c) Sash (warp): 208 cm
- Type
- costume & accessories
- Man's pants, shirt and sash
