Jacket, Uniform

Dublin Core

Title

Jacket, Uniform

Subject

History
Personal Objects
Clothing
Main Garments
University of Arkansas

Description

Drum Major Jacket.

Tail coat: white wool twill lined with white satin. Front has 5 white plastic 4-hole buttons and 5 machine worked buttonholes. Has chain stitch loop attached to ach bottom 3 buttonholes. Has 6 chrome plated shank buttons on each side for attaching shield.

Collar: stand up red wool twill trimmed in white soutache braid. Has 2 smaller chrome plated buttons on back of collar. Collar lined in black wool. Has 4 brass studs and large hook and eye. Sleeves: white wool twill. Half of cuff red felt with meandering red chain stitch and banded with black soutache braid. Each sleeve has stylized half-lyre in red felt with red net stitching and edged with black soutache braid. Back top: white wool twill padded shoulders. Evidence of 3 snaps on shoulder (2 present, 1 missing), 1 buttonhole and snap on each side of neck, 1 snap in center back.

Tails: white wool twill, lined with satin. Each side has closed pleat and same stylized half-lyre design in red felt, red net stitching, and edged with black soutache braid.

Shield: red wool twill lined with white satin. Has white felt lyre design with white net stitching, edged with black soutache braid. Inside top of lyre is white felt "A" - same stitching and edged with black soutache braid. Has 7 buttonholes on each side.

Inside coat - Label: Mfr's label and logo. Pocket in lining with label - "De Moulins Bros. & Col mfrs./ Greenville, ILL. USA/Richard Barton/chest 37-1/2 collar 15/2___ no. 65584 9(?)

Creator

De Moulins Bros. & Co.

Identifier

0088-0081-0003

Medium

Cloth

Physical Object Item Type Metadata

Donor

Eldon Janzen, U of A Band Department

Continent

North America

Country

United States

State

Arkansas

County

Washington

City

Fayetteville

Locality

University of Arkansas

Place of Production

Greenville, Illinois

Files

0088-0081-0003.jpg

Collection

Citation

De Moulins Bros. & Co., “Jacket, Uniform,” University of Arkansas Museum, accessed May 15, 2024, https://uamuseum.omeka.net/items/show/86255.