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  • Any sleeveless upper body garments

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            36 Archival description results for Vest

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            C.P. Company Knit Vest
            2017.306 · Item · 1980
            Part of Westminster Menswear Archive
            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
            German Police Tactical Body Armor Plate Carrier Vest
            2016.161 · Item
            Part of Westminster Menswear Archive
            Overt tactical plate carrier vest constructed of black nylon. The vest is padded and composed of two pieces that are joined by large Velcro patches on the shoulders and lower front. Each of the lower front flaps has a Velcro-fastening bellow pocket with an inverted pleat for storing documents. The vests shoulders straps are adjustable for height and feature epaulettes that fasten with press studs. Each shoulder strap features a short MOLLE (Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment) strap to attach other equipment. Four airwave radio docks are on the front of the vest, two on the upper chest and two on the side flaps. The vest's back neck features a drag handle that can be used to pull the wearer to safety if they fall to the ground. The waist straps are part elasticated. The vest's interior features plate pockets measuring 10 by 12 inches to accommodate plate armour. Size L. German Police
            Silk Knitted Vest
            2017.351.10 · Item · 1900-1910
            Part of Westminster Menswear Archive
            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
            Rayon Jersey Fine Knit Vest
            2018.169 · Item · 1930-1939
            Part of Westminster Menswear Archive
            Rayon blend white jersey vest. It has been constructed as a tubular knit on a rotary frame so there are no side seams. The arm holes have been cut to sit very narrowly on the chest and the neck and armholes have been finished with a thick coverstitch with a much lighter rolled hem finishing on the hem. Paper shop price label attached.
            Country of Design: England
            Country of Manufacture: England             Designer unknown
            Alexander McQueen Double Ended Vest
            2017.320 · Item · 1996-1998
            Part of Westminster Menswear Archive
            Red cotton low necked sleeveless vest which has cut out straps at both top and bottom. The front is printed in black with a mid-1800s portrait photograph of the head of a man and on the back is 'McQUEEN' (with the copyright 'c' in the Q).
            Keywords: Runway sample             Alexander McQueen
            Stone Island Helicopter Vest
            2017.352.2 · Item · Autumn Winter 2005
            Part of Westminster Menswear Archive

            Dark grey brown nylon military style vest / rucksack with padded straps and webbing and plastic buckle fastening at the front. It has pockets on the straps, the right strap has two pockets one fastening with Velcro the other with a metal press stud. The left strap has a long vertical pocket fastening with Velcro. There are two large pouch pockets which fasten with two metal press studs at the front hips. There is a long narrow detachable pouch or pocket that fastens at the top and down a centre front vertical opening with Velcro. The pocket has a webbing loop at the top and can be attached to a press stud webbing loop on the left padded strap at centre front.

            The sides lace up with detachable lacing. The back of the vest is padded and has one large pocket which opens at the top and fastens with Velcro and a YKK zip. It has a webbing handle at the centre top for carrying in the style of a bag. Size M.
            Label: Stone Island 0425620
            Country of Design: Italy
            Country of Manufacture: Indonesia

             Stone Island
            Crocodile Cotton Vest
            2019.186.2 · Item · nd [1960-1969]
            Part of Westminster Menswear Archive
            White cotton sleeveless vest made of knitted jersey with a wide vertical stripe of ribbing in a pattern in the knit. The jersey is a fine knit and the neck and armholes are finished with a narrow strip of rib sewn with two lines of stitching. Knitted in the round with shoulder seams. Crocodile
            Stone Island Vest
            2017.178 · Item · 1989
            Part of Westminster Menswear Archive
            Blue synthetic sleeveless waistcoat or vest with silver reflective strips. The waistcoat has a v-neck and closes with a vertical length of Velcro down the centre front. It has a vertical strip of silver reflective material sewn onto each side of the front chest and a horizontal strip across the top of the centre back which has been printed with 'STONE ISLAND' in cutout lettering on black. Under the front left strip is printed in stencil style lettering in black 'S. I 989'. The armholes, bottom hem and neck edges are finished with darker blue synthetic trim. Stone Island