Trousers

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A quintessential pant from the period, this well made boy’s pants incorporate pleating at the front and the back, causing a fuller look around the hips. The pants are in excellent condition and to have a pair of white boy's pants from the later part of the nineteenth century is to be valued.

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art