Portrait of a young gentleman dressed in a dark wool justaucorps coat with double-breasted closures and silver etched buttons. A pink vest, or waistcoat, with similar closure and silver thread-covered buttons is decorated with silver metal lace. A fine white muslin shirt is also seen at the neck and wrists. The fashionable "tye" powdered wig with several rows of tight side curls is worn with a black ribbon that holds his hair back in a bag. This style of wig replaced the periwig in fashionable circles by the second third of the 18th century. Conservative individuals nevertheless retained the older periwig style, which was fossilized in the attire of such professionals as Britain's High Court Judges who wear them to this day.

  
Iridescent Green Embroidered Silk Coat and Knee-Breeches
Italy, 1770-1780
Lent by the Helen Clark Ward Costume Collection, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
R.T. Miller Jr. Fund
KSUM L1995.17. 175ab (48.171)

The suit is accessorized with installation shoes, stockings and neck stock.

  White Linen Ruffled Shirt
United States of America, late 18th century
Lent by The Western Reserve Historical Society
Gift of Miss Marguerite Chapman
WRHS 61.82.8