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Measurements

• Front rise: 76.3 cm.
• Waist: 95 cm internally, externally 100cm.
• Leg width adjustment 116 cm.
• Bottom leg width: 54 cm.
• Waist band: 2.5cm.
• Slit / fly: 33 cm.
• Center back length: 75.7 cm including 2.3 cm knee band.
• Side seam:: 72 cm.
• Inseam: 40.5 cm including knee bands
• Opening at knee band (?): 27 cm.
• Pocket opening (?): 20.5 cm.
• Pocket depth (?): 15 cm.
• Kneeband: 2.3 cm.

The breeches are gathered at the waistband and knee bands. The waistband is the same fabric as the breeches in general and is lined with white linen and a batting of folded coarse linen. The knee bands are like the waistband. The breeches have been decorated with the 7 mm wide silver braid. The braid runs from the waistband down to the knee bands in groups of three and three with 4.5 cm between each group. In all, there were 34 groups. The right leg has now 12 braids left and left legs have 19 left. In the 1978 conservation, braids were reconstructed with brown cotton cord.

There is an opening at the side of each knee band, which is fully enclosed. The opening on the right pant leg is is lined with 9 round silver wire-covered buttons on each side. On the left leg there are 9 buttons on the back and 11 buttons on the front. The buttons are 15 mm in diameter. There are 9 silver wire loops, one around each button. Three silver cords are missing on right leg, on the left there are [none?] left. The opening is edged with silver braid. The fabric at the fly opening has hemmed edges. In the fly, 7 cm from the waist, are two eyelets next to each other, two on each side of the opening. The eyelets are outlined with stitches of off-white silk. Only a few stitches remain on the left side. The breeches are lined with white linen. Between the linen and the outer fabric are remnants of wool batting. The knee bands are decorated with pattern-woven ocher-colored ribbon tipped with 2.5-4 cm long metal aiglets. On the left leg there are five mostly intact ribbons remaining; on the right two pieces remain. The bands are inserted at the knee bands and through the lining. The bands were reconstructed in the 1978 conservation. Pockets of white linen are lined with light brown taffeta. On each side of the crotch seam, 18 cm down from the fork, two 6.8 mm wide cords of brown silk are sewn. On the knee band is a paper label with N 5 and some illegible words in brown ink. The wool is in good condition, but the taffeta in the pockets is very brittle.

Materials

Breeches fabric

Thread count: 12 tr / cm.

Structure: plain weave.

Linen lining

Thread count: 3ca 40 tr / cm.

Structure: plain weave.

Silk (taffeta) lining in the pockets.

Structure: plain weave.