Item 15 - Corps Jacket

One garment.

Closed-collar single-breasted brown O.T.C jacket with central black buttons and four pockets. Features two sizes of buttons with relief design of a crown and bugle horn connected by a bow. With two flap pockets, a lower skirt and two chest box-pleat pockets with flap close, all held with a smaller button. Both epaulettes on shoulders have a small button and ‘Westminster OTC School’ pin badges. Embroidered satin stitch insignia on sleeve cuffs: proper-left orange rifle, proper-right red diamond with silk shading and central cream diamond outline. Two small makers’ labels visible in interior back collar, and remains of paper label on proper-left chest interior. Pinstripe twill lining in sleeves Conserved by students of the Centre for Textile Conservation at the University of Glasgow in 2015.

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