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COLEM:1977.94

Colchester Collections

suit, two-piece suit

Two-piece Utility Dinner Suit consisting of black wool facecloth jacket and trousers. Labelled 'Hepworths, Leeds and London'. 1940-50. CC41. Jacket: black wool facecloth with rayon lining and facings & shawl collar and lapels & single breasted with two button link fastening & full length sleeves with four buttons at cuffs & two waist pockets with one internal pocket in left one & one left breast pocket & two vertical darts at front & plain back & one right breast pocket & label on outside of pocket and inside of pocket & utility label inside jacket seam. Trousers: black wool facecloth & waistband with six buttons for braces on outside (one fallen off - in jacket pocket) & front four button fly, with flap on waistband fastening with metal trouser hook and eye & two unpressed pleats either side at front under waistband & two waist pockets lined with white cotton and one flapped back pocket & black braid on outside leg seams.

1940 - 1950

20th Century

Hepworths / LEEDS [AMPERSAND] LONDON10881 / CUTT - 16 / STYLE - NS-39 / SIZE 38 / UT.L X209E / GRADE 2 / TOTAL 22

textile, textile, textile

full length: 750.00 mm
full length: 1010.00 mm
inside leg length: 760.00 mm

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