1930s Abercrombie & Fitch Man's Suit

White linen jacket- double breasted with 4 7/8" mother-of-pearl 4-hole buttons and machine keyhole buttonholes; wide peaked lapel collar with machine worked buttonholes; 3 patch pockets; jacket unlined with hand finished seams and bound armscyes; Two-piece sleeves with 3 5/8" mother-of-pearl 4-hole buttons; sleeves have 2.5" hand hems.

White linen unlined trousers with straight legs and 1.5" cuff. Six button, 9.5" fly front closure--4 buttons tan vegetable Ivory, 1 mother of pearl at waistband that is visible, 1 white plastic (may be replacement) inside at waist seam . Pockets: right waist watch pocket, left and right side seam pockets, Left and right back besom pockets--left pocket has button and buttonhole closure--remnants of mother of pearl button still attached to thread. Eight self fabric belt loops attached to waistband, evidence of 6 tan vegetable ivory suspender buttons sewn to inside of waistband.

HCT.1988.418.11ab

This suit belonged to Thomas Clarence (T.C.) Heisey. T.C. was born on November 4, 1882 in Idlewood, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of six children. At the time of his birth, his father was the co-owner of the George Duncan & Sons Glass Company in Pittsburgh. Augustus Heisey, T.C.'s father, then founded the A.H. Heisey Glass Company in Newark, Ohio in 1896. T.C. Heisey graduated from Amherst College in 1908, where he majored in Chemistry. T.C. began working at the glass company after graduation. T.C. was the President of the glass company from 1942 until the plant closing in 1957. He married Anne Augusta Davis on October 9, 1912 and they had two children, Thomas C. Jr. and Mary. Thomas C. Jr. would also graduate from Amherst College with a degree in Chemistry.

Trousers/Slacks, Tailored - Double-Breasted Jacket, Peaked Lapel

fiber content=Flax

1930-1939

Natural