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WHITE HOUSE HISTORY (Number 32)
bruce white for the white house historical association \ collection of the woodrow wilson house
time and life Pictures / Getty imaGes
bruce white for the white house historical association \ collection of the woodrow wilson house
The demands of the presidency require large wardrobes. Some of the coats President Wilson wore in France survive today in his closet at the S Street house in Washington, including a Chesterfield and a greatcoat. In the photograph taken with General John J. Pershing in December 1918 during a review of the Fifty-Sixth Division of American troops at Chaumont, France, Wilson wears a double-breasted fur coat, probably of either kangaroo or wombat, and a top hat. The coat hangs in the closet, bearing the label “The Crosby Frisian Fur Co. Rochester, N.Y.� A top hat in the Wilson House collection, with initials and label, is seen lower left.