jacket
Report a Mistake- Date Made Circa 1890 - Circa 1910
- Event --
- Affiliation Canadian
- Artist / Maker / Manufacturer --
- Object Number C-379
- Place of Origin Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - New Brunswick, Municipality - Marysville
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada, Province / Territory - New Brunswick, Municipality - Marysville
- Category Personal artifacts
- Sub-category Clothing, outerwear
- Department History
- Museum CMH
- Earliest 1885/01/01
- Latest 1915/12/31
- Materials Cotton
- Person / Institution Associated party, Gibson family
- Measurements Length 35.0 cm, Width 140.0 cm, Thickness 5.8 cm
- Caption Comments on this jacket from the Gibson family
- Additional Information Child's spring and summer jacket of white Bedford cord; double breasted; eyelet embroidery trim; long sleeves with turned back cuffs also have eyelet trim. Fronts are fitted with darts from the beginning of the collar to the upper chest area. Jacket is closed with two hand-worked buttonholes on the right side and large, thick mother-of-pearl buttons; two non-functional buttons arranged parallel to one-another on the right side; a smaller button (now missing) under left collar secured the neckline. The back has been cut with a yoke, to which is attached a lower jacket back with its fullness controlled in three central box pleats. Jacket has a large, modified peter pan collar trimmed with a wide frill of scalloped-edged eyelet embroidery; long, set-in, two-piece sleeves with shaped, turned-back cuffs trimmed as collar; there is a hanging tape at the centre back yoke seam.