Agree that waistcoats are sexy, if they have interesting woven patterns!
Or embroidery, I suppose - I remember seeing a large piece of fabric on a stretcher (like for a canvas for painting) at the Victoria & Albert Museum, which was the front of a waistcoat and also the embroidered flaps for the pockets for the waistcoat. The waistcoat edges along the front and following through the hem/curve to the side seam, were matched by the pocket flaps. I suppose keeping them all on one piece of fabric meant that each new bit of embroidery (leaf, stamen, etc - it was floral) could be finished on all the pieces at once so they would be identical, and they wouldn't get lost one from each other.
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Date: 2023-07-22 08:08 pm (UTC)Or embroidery, I suppose - I remember seeing a large piece of fabric on a stretcher (like for a canvas for painting) at the Victoria & Albert Museum, which was the front of a waistcoat and also the embroidered flaps for the pockets for the waistcoat. The waistcoat edges along the front and following through the hem/curve to the side seam, were matched by the pocket flaps. I suppose keeping them all on one piece of fabric meant that each new bit of embroidery (leaf, stamen, etc - it was floral) could be finished on all the pieces at once so they would be identical, and they wouldn't get lost one from each other.