Pair of socks made of finely knitted cream silk. They have decorative clocks on each side and long ribbing sections at the top. The toes, heels and foot of the socks are shaped through the knitting. They have been darned and mended with a patch on the inside of one of the toes.
Designer unknown
T-shirt style cotton underwear top with a three button opening at the neck. The top is made of cream or off-white knitted cotton jersey with a fleecy surface to the underside. The round neck opening has been created by cutting a hole into the top of the garment (no shoulder seams) and then the cut part has been sewn into the back of the neck and finished with zig-zag stitching. The three button opening at the centre front has been reinforced with woven cotton and the buttons are white plastic. The short sleeves and bottom hem are finished with ribbing.
Size 44
Country of manufacture: Great Britain
Trenta
Short sleeved cream wool knitted pullover top worn as an undergarment. It has a crew neck and front packet with three buttonholes (only the middle button remains intact). It is constructed with flat fell seams and has no shoulder seams . The sleeve seams form a diamond shaped underarm gusset. It has a curved hem, longer at the back and gussets at the side seams.
Country of Design: England
Country of Manufacture: England
Society
Cream silk jersey knitted vest with a round neck and short sleeves. It opens part way down the centre front with a placket lined in cream cotton and fastening with four mother of pearl shell buttons. The bottom hem and cuffs are finished with rib knit. The inside back of the neck has a lining of the same fabric which has been hand stitched down. It has a makers label in the back of the neck which has frayed - the only legible word is 'London'. Size 'W 42'. Large hole and run in the centre front and right side. Some yellowing.
Country of Design: Britain
Country of Manufacture: Britain
Keywords: Underwear
Designer unknown
Cream crocheted (probably by hand) cotton jumper with long sleeves and opaque white long glass beads. The beads are threaded onto the yarn and crocheted into the garment in a herringbone pattern. It is fully fashioned with the beading tapered down the sleeve. One bead has come off.
Country of Design: United States
Country of Manufacture: possibly India
Calvin Klein
Red lambswool Lyle & Scott V-neck sweater with four overlapping diagonal lines, each 2cm wide, in black, blue, aquamarine, and lemon, forming a diamond pattern on the front. On the upper left sleeve, the Lyle & Scott logo and eagle are embroidered in navy. The sleeve cuffs and bottom edge of the jumper have a 6cm rib finish.
Country of Design: Scotland
Country of Manufacture: Scotland
Keywords: Golf, sportswear, leisurewear
Lyle & Scott
Blue crew neck Fair Isle jumper with green, black and red pattern as part of the Nick Faldo collection for Pringle. It has a black diamond golf patch on the front, and the Nick Faldo golfer Pringle logo in red on the left sleeve.
Country of Design: Scotland
Country of Manufacture: Scotland
Pringle
Round neck knitted jumper in cream, bone and three shades of brown wool and alpaca mix yarn. It has sections of pattern in combinations of two colours around the neck, hem and sleeve cuffs of triangles and diamonds, knitted using the Fair Isle (fairisle) technique. The section of pattern around the neck, upper chest and back and shoulders as well as around the cuffs has been reversed so the 'wrong' side is showing with long loops of yarn. Large white Margiela and H&M label in the back of the neck.
Maison Martin Margiela
Cream, brown and dark green Fair Isle (fairisle) style knit vest with v-neck. It is knitted in alternating stripes of cream moss stitch cotton, plain stitch brown flower motifs on a green ground, and brown and cream checks. The v-neck is edged in plain stitch cream cotton. The armholes are edged in plain stitch brown and the bottom is finished with a deep rib in brown.
Country of Design: Italy
Country of Manufacture: Italy
C.P. Company
V-neck cardigan with a vertical stripe design in dark blue and olive brown green. It fastens at the centre front with four metal poppers with dark blue covers. The trim around the neck and down each side of the centre front opening is a doubled over fine plain knit in dark blue. The knit is a diagonal rib stitch and it has wide ribbing at the cuffs and around the hem.
C.P. Company
