Breeches

Clothes for Men

Inventory number
2021.11.24.9.CM.TR.C1835.FR
Author:
Spiegelhalter Gantiers-Culottiers (French, 1820 - 1870)
Description
Men's knee-breeches in cream chamois skin leather with small bridge, completed with chiseled brass and mother of pearl buttons. Small rectangular brass buckles fasten the legs on the knee line. Such type of white breeches could be worn on a court hunting.
Materials
Chamois leather
Brass
Mother-of-pearl
Cotton
Origin
circa 1835 Paris, France