This women’s coat, jangot, has a mulberry-paper lining between the inner and outer layers.
The rectangular gussets (5.5cm in width) are attached under the armpits.
The front length is 132cm and the back length is 128.5cm.
Two kinds of stitches were used in making this coat: broadstitch and backstitch.
Along the seams where inner and outer wrapping blocks (seop) are attached to the front bodice block (gil), the seam margin is folded to the bodice side.
The wrapping blocks are cut so that the slanting lines are sewn to the bodice and the warp threads run straight along the edges of the coat down to the hemlines.
Because the front and back bodice blocks are cut into a single piece, there are no seams on the shoulders.
The seam margins around the armholes are folded to the bodice side.
The inner and outer collars are wide, and no collar strip (dongjeong) was found.
The warp threads of the gussets run straight along the side seam but severed along the slanting lines that meet the bodice in the same way they are cut today.
The coat is fastened in the chest with ribbons that are 2cm wide and 20cm long, but no inner breast-ties were found.
Of the two ribbons, one is attached to the edge of the outer front and the other to the spot 10cm inward from the edge of the inner front.
These positions of the ribbon-ties that facilitate a secure fastening with a sufficient overlap indicate that like in the period before the Japanese Invasion in 1592 the coat was actually worn rather than wrapped around the face like a hood.
This double-layer silk coat has turned brown except in the yellowish cuffs.
These two parts must have been different in color when it was first made.
