Item 2020.90.1 - Tuff as Steel Tweed Three Piece Suit - Jacket

2020.90.1

Tuff as Steel Tweed Three Piece Suit - Jacket

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Jacket from three piece wool tweed workwear suit with cotton lining. The wool tweed is dark grey herringbone twill with widely set one thread stripes in red and green. The jacket is single breasted with notched collar and lapels that have been topstitched. It fastens with three black plastic buttons, has a welted angled breast pocket and two rounded flapped pockets at the hips. No back vent. It is lined in dark grey cotton twill with the sleeves in plain cream cotton. There is an inside jetted chest pocket to the right side of the lining, a smaller jetted chest pocket to the left side and a large jetted pocket with button closure across the left inside lining at waist level. Label sewn to the right inner pocket.

Label: The / Famous / TUFF-AS-STEEL / Good Service Tweed
Materials: wool, cotton, plastic
Measurements:
Chest - 22 1/4 inches
Inside arm - 18 1/2 inches
Outside arm - 26 inches
Shoulders - 18 1/4 inches
Length - 29 inches

In Object File:
Paper label found in outside chest pocket of jacket: THE LINDEN [shield and knight wearing armour mounted on a horse holding a lance] / THE FAMOUS / TUFF-AS-STEEL / DERBY TWEED / 40 ORDER 1781 / NO. 1976/83
Metal rivets found in lower waistcoat pocket of the waistcoat.