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There are 2 fronts, two backs and 2 waistbands; the back legs are cut higher than the fronts and gathered into the back of the waistbands.  The waistbands are lined plain linen, the legs with pale blue linen.  There is a pocket on each side, closed with a fabric-covered button and buttonhole.  The breeches close with 4 silver-gilt passementerie buttons at the centre front and a worked eyelet on each side of the waistband at centre back, for lacing. 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The collection had been formed by the artist Talbot Hughes, who wrote a book on the history of dress, illustrated with photographs of models wearing items from his collection. A large firm in America had offered to buy the collection and present it to the Metropolitan Museum, New York, but Hughes did not want it to go abroad. At the suggestion of Cecil Harcourt Smith of the V&A, Harrods bought it for £2,500 and gave it to the Museum for the 'public good'. 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