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embroidered velvet silk
Not currently on view
Museum Purchase: Auxiliary Costume Fund
This velvet suit is a rare surviving example of a gentleman's eighteenth century formal attire complete with its "wig-bag" pouch attached at the back neckline of the coat. Male hairstyles of the 1780s were often fashioned with long hair pulled back into a ponytail, known in the eighteenth century by the French term queue. Wig bags either covered the queue or served as a buffer to protect costly fabrics from contact with the natural hair oil.
Accession Number: 2005.6A-C
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