Item 2019.55 - Pexwear Overalls

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2019.55

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Pexwear Overalls

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  • 1950 (Creation)

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Pexwear

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Westminster Menswear Archive

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Blue boiler suit with mitres breast patch pocket and two slanted trouser pockets at the suits hip. On the back facing of the slanted trouser pocket is a side slit pocket secured with a bar tack to the top. Five button boiler suit concealed front. ' PEX WEAR' is embossed onto metal shank buttons. There is one mitred patch pocket on the rear back right hand side of the boiller suit. there are two leg square patch pockets stitched into the trouser out seam at the thigh. Felled seams are used through out the boiler suit. An inner belt is stitched in the nape of the centre back. 'PEXWEAR' is part of John Peck and Co Ltd, and was designed and manufactured in Liverpool

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      Pexwear brand label packaging has been staped onto the front of the breast welt pocket: Pexwear Pex Product, for all trades and professions, Boiler suit, Style 177, Chest 38, B 111/2 8/5 568. E Head, is written by hand on the brand tag. Inside tag: Chest 38, L31, SL 34, style 177, 8/S, 568, Pex product

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      Invisible Men exhibition label:

      NAVY BOILERSUIT
      Pexwear
      1950-1955

      Based in Liverpool, Pexwear were manufacturers of protective clothing for all trades and professions. Their labels stated they supplied butchers, grocers, chefs, waiters, painters, engineers, warehousemen, hairdressers, mercantile marine, food preparers, and they also made ‘proofed and unproofed sportswear for golfers’.

      Cotton
      Archive no. 2019.55

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      Invisible Men exhibition label:

      NAVY BOILERSUIT
      Pexwear
      1950-1955

      Based in Liverpool, Pexwear were manufacturers of protective clothing for all trades and professions. Their labels stated they supplied butchers, grocers, chefs, waiters, painters, engineers, warehousemen, hairdressers, mercantile marine, food preparers, and they also made ‘proofed and unproofed sportswear for golfers’.

      Cotton
      Archive no. 2019.55

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