Trousers

Unknown

ca. 1833 · flax · Costume Institute

As in women's apparel of the period, men's sleeves puffed at cap and balloony pants were exaggeratedly full at hip and thigh. These extreme styles, first Pickwickian, were later caricatured as dandified and effete.

Artist

Unknown

Date

ca. 1833

Medium

flax

Culture

British

Department

Costume Institute

Credit line

Purchase, Irene Lewisohn and Alice L. Crowley Bequests, 1982