Details: This suit dates to the Victorian turn of the century and is fashioned of a fine denim colored linen.  The suit is two piece in its construction.  The jacket falls long with a pocket on the left chest with polished shell buttons enclosing the front invisibly.  The sleeves are drawn in at the wrist by a fine series of inverted pleating given the arm a wonderful detail.  

The buttons on the cuffs were removed as are the buttons on the bottom of each leg of the shorts but they are easily replaced.  The collar is fashioned of white picot cotton which is edged in the blue linen with a half inch insertion of a machine done eyelet running between the linen and fine lined cotton.  The shorts are meant to button at the side but the buttons again were removed.  Small pockets are on either side at the seam and there is a small opening in the fly with an inner flap to completely hide the opening. 

 The suit is in very clean condition, several fingertip yellow points of age are seen on the side of the shorts, on the very top of the pocket of the jacket with a faint line of staining four inches down from the right underarm with a double eraser sized sticky stain of what may be old wallpaper glue on the bottom left cuff of the shorts.  None the less, an excellent museum quality ensemble.  

Measures 28 inches around the chest, 13 inches across the shoulders, and 21 inches in length from shoulder to bottom with the shorts measuring 24 inches around the waist, and an outside seam of 18 inches in length.  Modern day sizing would put this as a child's size 6-7. 

Price:    $169.00