CS Trousers

[Jimmayo]

http://www.oldsouthantiques.com/os3034p1.htm

I like the shade of blue on the stripe.

[tsgalloway]

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Awesome. The price on these is pretty good considering...

[FloridaConscript]

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I like the belt/waist band. Might have to incorporate that into my next pair.

Also notice the mend/patch job. Johnny did his best to mend clothing as time and resources allowed.

[LibertyHallVols]

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Too bad there is not more of a description. I am wondering what the fabric might be. It almost looks like a cotton or cotton/linen blend or something, rather than a wool or wool blend fabric.

[GreencoatCross]

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If you right click on the photos and select "view image" you'll be able to see them enlarged quite a bit. If you look at the frayed sections near the patch I believe that it shows wool fibers. The fabric looks like a light weight, tightly woven wool/cotton jean to me. The pale blue and white yarns used for the selvedge are my favorite detail; I have never seen a colored selvedge used deliberately as a trouser stripe before.

[jwoodli]

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I got to see these trousers at the last Dalton, GA CW show. They are handsewn from a light twilled cotton. The most interesting thing might be that the blue stripe is woven into the fabric, and they were cut to incorporate the stripe along the side seam. I asked the provenience, which was not specific, though it was mentioned the trousers were sewn by the soldier's mother.
Very neat piece.

[Garrett Silliman]

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Dylan -

Do you mean Provenance or Provenience? What are you doing on these boards right now anyway - don't you have reports to write? (tongue in cheek thumbs up icon)

[jwoodli]

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Yeah, Garrett, that one...

[floridawar]

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Far be it from me to question their confederate provenance, regardless my first thought was the ante-bellum details of this pair, as I have seen several references over the years to trousers made with an integral side stripe. Here's just one;

"All morning trousers have a broad black stripe up the side seam, this is either woven in with the material, or when that is not the case, a twilled worsted binding is sewn on.” [Phila. Natl. Gazette, Aug. 23, 1831]

The four suspender buttons also remind men of ca. 1840 trousers...

cheers,

Archie Marshall