Waistcoat

© C A Lovegrove.

Replica waistcoat from a Beatrix Potter tale in display case in The House Of The Tailor Of Gloucester museum, in Gloucester.

Illustration by Beatrix Potter of mice sewing the waistcoat

There were roses and pansies upon the facings of the coat; and the waistcoat was worked with poppies and corn-flowers.

Everything was finished except just one single cherry-coloured buttonhole, and where that buttonhole was wanting there was pinned a scrap of paper with these words—in little teeny weeny writing—

NO MORE TWIST.

— Beatrix Potter
Detail of waistcoat with scrap of paper saying ‘No more twist’. © C A Lovegrove.

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