Service dress trousers : Victorian Field Artillery

Place Oceania: Australia, Victoria
Accession Number REL/18593.002
Collection type Heraldry
Object type Uniform
Physical description Cotton, Leather, Linen, Plastic, Wool
Maker Unknown
Date made c 1900
Conflict Australian Colonial Forces, 1854-1900
Description

Dark blue straight legged wool twill trousers with wide red wool stripe extending down the side seams. Black plastic buttoned waist and fly. Small welt pocket at waist extends in a semi-circle above the waistband. Pocket lined with undyed cotton drill. Waistband lined with dyed calico, the lower seam of which prevents access to the lower section of the waist welt pocket. Fly lined with black glazed linen and fork with striped cotton twill. At the rounded trouser hem is a small strip of leather at each inside ankle section.

History / Summary

Trousers of a similar type to those worn by the Victorian Field Artillery in the 1890s.