Hoar & Co.

William Fitzhugh Whitehouse (1877-1955) dressed in a manner befitting his travels to foreign territories. Both this streamlined jacket of white cotton and unlined suit of fine double-cloth cotton express Whitehouse's love of adventure and appreciation for sartorial souvenirs from his ports of call. In his 20s, Whitehouse was a pioneer of hot-air ballooning and a co-sponsor and youngest member of the Harrison-Whitehouse mapmaking expedition to "countries south of Abyssinia." On this trip, in June 1900, the party reached Bombay, India, where Whitehouse commissioned these garments from the civil and military tailors Hoar & Co.