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Satin waistcoat embroidered
with coloured silk, Gloucester, 1770
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Living: The costume department at the
V & A, inspiration for The Tailor Gloucester.
"I have been delighted to find I may draw
some most beautiful 18th century clothes
at the South Kensington Museum."
—Beatrix Potter, 1903.