Jacket, Uniform

Dublin Core

Title

Jacket, Uniform

Subject

History
Personal Objects
Clothing
Main Garments
University of Arkansas

Description

Band Director's Jacket. Red polyester twill single-breasted jacket lined in black fabric. Has 2 chrome plated shank buttons and 2 machine worked buttonholes. Lapels and collar black polyester twill and collar lined with black fabric. Left chest has set-in pocket, "U of A" embroidered in black, false red handkerchief in pocket with "DIRECTOR" embroidered in black. Welt pocket on each side opposite lower button. Welt flap black and pockets are lined in black fabric (probably taffeta). Each side has set-in pocket in lining.

Right pocket has stitched-on label - "DEMOULINS BROS. & CO." Small white tag says "Dry Clean Only." Right side pocket has stitched down white label with printing: "De Moulin Bros. & Co./Greenville, Illinois/ Inseam ___/Waist ___ Collar ___/Chest 41__ Robert Bright/O.NO. 766947," also small union label - "Int. Ladies Garment Workers Union." Back has 2 gores.

Sleeves have 2 rows of black soutache braid on top half and they are sewed on diagonal line. In smaller chrome plated shank buttons are sewed on and shank pushed underneath the red sleeve fabric.

Creator

De Moulins Bros. & Co.

Identifier

0088-0081-0005

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

Files

0088-0081-0005.jpg

Collection

Citation

De Moulins Bros. & Co., “Jacket, Uniform,” University of Arkansas Museum, accessed April 29, 2024, https://uamuseum.omeka.net/items/show/86257.