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2023.186.1
Title
Hogg & Sons Overcoat
Date(s)
- 1922 (Creation)
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1
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Savile Row and its environs, behind Regent Street, were renowned for their bespoke tailoring businesses. Boulter, Hepburn and Watts was apparently succeeded by Hogg, Sons & J B Johnstone Ltd; both companies had premises on Clifford Street (nos 10 and 19 respectively). The firm started in 1820 by John Brown Johnstone of Lockerbie, Scotland, developed as a civil and military tailors and was purchased from Johnstone's descendant by John Donaldson-Hudson in the 1940s. It acquired the firm of Hogg & Sons in the 1950s, and closed in 1999. The relationship with Tautz & Co Ltd (civil and sporting tailors, established in 1807), which had premises at no 19 Grafton Street, is unclear.
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Double breasted, black, wool overcoat with peaked lapels, each with a single buttonhole. At either side of the waist there is a jetted pocket with a flap. Four black buttons sit at the front. Inside the right pocket there is a smaller horizontal, watch pocket. At the reverse, there is a vent that runs up from the hem to just below waist level. Inside, the coat is lined in a black satin fabric across the shoulders, with the remainder lined in a dark green and white tartan. Inside, there are also horizontal pockets at either side of the chest.
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Label: Hogg & Sons / 7 Hanover Square / London W.1. / [Handwritten] A. H. Heal Esq / 29/9/22
Material: Wool
Measurements: 49cm [Chest]; 122cm [Length]
Details; Double breasted; Flap pockets
Physical Condition: Good
Material: Wool
Measurements: 49cm [Chest]; 122cm [Length]
Details; Double breasted; Flap pockets
Physical Condition: Good
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Made for donor’s paternal great-grandfather.