waistcoat
Report a Mistake- Date Made 1824-1845
- Event --
- Affiliation Canadian
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Object Number A-2492
- Place of Origin Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - Quebec
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - Quebec, Municipality - Murray Bay, Township / District - Charlevoix-Est, County of
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, outerwear
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1824/01/01
- Latest 1845/12/31
- Inscription (at the back, center of right shoulder/dans le dos au centre de l'épaule droite) John Nairne
- Pattern Name vine-leaf
- Materials Cotton
- Person / Institution Associated party, Nairne, Colonel John
- Measurements Length 55.0 cm, Width 52.0 cm, Thickness 5.6 cm
- Caption Comments on this waistcoat from the Nairne family
- Additional Information A man's single-breasted waistcoat, with foreparts of very finely ribbed, off-white cotton printed with an all-over pattern of fine serpentine vines in brown, with tiny outline brown, solid brown, and dark red leaves. The background of the fabric is finely speckled with tiny brown dots. The back of the waistcoat is made of white cotton; it is all hand-sewn. This waistcoat has been altered to make it larger. Foreparts are cut with high, turned-back, seamed notched collar which forms very narrow lapels; upper collar gently angles in to join lapel from the curved contour of the back collar line; self-fabric under-collar and white cotton collar stand; seven worked buttonholes and seven flat, self-covered, wooden (?) buttons with flax thread around their bases to form shanks. It has a welt pocket on each side with a white cotton pocket bag; gently sloping lower edges form a point at centre front when buttoned; foreparts lined with white cotton. Back is formed of double layer of white cotton (a three-corner tear and a few small holes carefully darned in lower left back); at centre back waistline is a 12.0 cm wide triangular inset of fine white cotton which extends to 6.5 cm below collar stand at centre back; two wide linen tapes, sewn one above the other, at the lower side waistline of each side. The left tapes have been extended by the addition of lengths of linen tape that have been knotted to the original tapes. 'John Nairne' has been written vertically in black ink at the right centre back shoulder blade. . According to dating associated with this garment, the John Nairne who could have worn this waistcoat is John McNicol Nairne, whose grandfather was Colonel John Nairne, the first Seigneur of Murray Bay.