European Men's Wear 1770–1800
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 10 items of late-eighteenth-century men's wear main garments, such as coats, waistcoats and breeches, dating from 1770 to 1800. The most significant of these is a red wool broadcloth riding or hunting coat worn by George Houston of Johnstone Castle (1744–1815).
Men's formal fashions during the late 1770s consisted of matching or co-ordinating embroidered silk coats, waistcoats and breeches. Changing styles were reflected by the use of different fabrics and changes to the cut of the garments. In the late 1770s the latter included coats that were slim cut with increasingly curved fronts flowing into long tails. These were worn over waistcoats that were slowly shortened, first to the hips and, by the end of the century, to the waist. More informal styles for day wear also became fashionable, with garments often made in plain-coloured wool broadcloth.
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