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2019.84.7
Title
French Workers Jacket with visible mending
Date(s)
- undated [1930-1960] (Creation)
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French workers jacket in faded blue with three patch pockets and repaired with extensive areas of hand stitched mending and darning. It fastens with five black plastic buttons with a single button on each cuff. It has an internal right pocket with top stitching. It has been repaired all over, predominantly at places of wear; the collar, cuffs, right pocket, and internal breast pocket. The hand stitching has been carried out in varying shades of blue and features a whip stitch along the centre front and cuffs with a darning technique used elsewhere.
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Material: Cotton.
Colour: Faded blue.
Keywords: Mending, hand stitching, repair, workwear. No label.
Colour: Faded blue.
Keywords: Mending, hand stitching, repair, workwear. No label.
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Bought by the previous owner as a research piece from a dealer who sells historic French workwear at Spitalfields Market, London.