Jacket, Uniform
Dublin Core
Title
Jacket, Uniform
Subject
History
Personal Objects
Clothing
Main Garments
University of Arkansas
Description
Majorette jacket. White wool twill.
Front: right side has 6 chrome plated buttons (should have one more but it's missing). Shank buttons, "Waterbury Button Co., Conn." and have lyre design. Left side has 7 buttons like those on right side. Also has 5 4-hole white plastic buttons. Lined with white satin. Right side has mfr's label: "FRUHAUF southwest Uniforms/Wichita, Kansas/Date - 9-4-54" with lines for name, chest, sleeve, waist, and neck measurements. Left side has 2 reinforcing white plastic buttons, right side has 5 worked buttonholes. Sewed on label in middle of back: "115." Hanging loop in middle of back.
Back: gored, with red soutache braid covering seam on each side. Braid ends in trefoil at top of each seam. Waist pointed and has slit.
Shoulders: epaulettes made of braided red and white cording. Collar: red wool twill standing collar trimmed with 3 rows of white soutache, small metal button on each side and a tab on left side with hook & eye.
Sleeves: white wool twill, red wool twill cuffs ending in a point on upper side. Red soutache braid surrounds cuff and forms a complex trefoil on upper side above point on cuff.
Front: right side has 6 chrome plated buttons (should have one more but it's missing). Shank buttons, "Waterbury Button Co., Conn." and have lyre design. Left side has 7 buttons like those on right side. Also has 5 4-hole white plastic buttons. Lined with white satin. Right side has mfr's label: "FRUHAUF southwest Uniforms/Wichita, Kansas/Date - 9-4-54" with lines for name, chest, sleeve, waist, and neck measurements. Left side has 2 reinforcing white plastic buttons, right side has 5 worked buttonholes. Sewed on label in middle of back: "115." Hanging loop in middle of back.
Back: gored, with red soutache braid covering seam on each side. Braid ends in trefoil at top of each seam. Waist pointed and has slit.
Shoulders: epaulettes made of braided red and white cording. Collar: red wool twill standing collar trimmed with 3 rows of white soutache, small metal button on each side and a tab on left side with hook & eye.
Sleeves: white wool twill, red wool twill cuffs ending in a point on upper side. Red soutache braid surrounds cuff and forms a complex trefoil on upper side above point on cuff.
Creator
Fruhauf Southwest Uniforms
Identifier
0088-0081-0020
Date Created
1955
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
Wichita, Kansas
Files
Collection
Citation
Fruhauf Southwest Uniforms, “Jacket, Uniform,” University of Arkansas Museum, accessed May 7, 2024, https://uamuseum.omeka.net/items/show/86272.