PANTS

Description: PAIR OF BOY'S POLYESTER WIDE-LEGGED PANTS WITH A VERY WIDE CUFF. PANTS HAVE TWO WELT POCKETS IN THE FRONT, AND ONE ON THE BACK RIGHT THAT FASTENS WITH A NAVY BLUE PLASTIC BUTTON. WAISTBAND IS ALSO VERY WIDE, WITH BELT LOOPS AROUND THE ENTIRE BAND. HEM HAS BEEN STITCHED ROUGHLY AND HAVE A FEW AREAS THAT THE FABRIC IS SLIGHTLY WORN AND FUZZY.

History: PANTS BELONGED TO DONORS SON RAYMOND MCCLEARY. *UPDATE* IN 2017 COLLECTIONS ASSISTANT RUTHANN LABLANCE CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF CLOTHING, INCLUDING SEVERAL CLOTHING ITEMS DONATED BY CECILE MCCLEARY. THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION COMES FROM AN INTERVIEW WITH THE DONOR, CECILE MCCLEARY AND HER HUSBAND CHARLES MCCLEARY. CECILE HAD THE FOLLOWING TO SAY: “[THE PANTS] BELONGED TO OUR SON, RAYMOND, AND HE PUT HIMSELF THROUGH DRAMA SCHOOL, AND ART SCHOOL, BY BEING A MAGICIAN, AND HE WAS ALSO AN ACTOR. HE’S DONE A NUMBER OF THINGS. THEY WERE PANTS THAT HE WORE WHEN HE WAS A CLOWN CALLED BONNET. HE HAD THIS ACT THAT HE DID, WHICH HE DID FOR THE MARIGOLD. IT WAS SUMMER JOB, AND HE TOURED THROUGH THAT AREA OF ALBERTA, PROMOTING THE MARIGOLD LIBRARY SYSTEM, DOING HIS MAGIC/MIME ACT, OF BONNET THE CLOWN. HE WAS A MIME. HE’D BEEN TO MIME SCHOOL, SO THOSE PANTS WERE LEFT BEHIND AND HE DIDN’T WANT THEM. THEY LOOK LIKE CHARLIE CHAPLIN PANTS AND THEY NEEDED A GOOD HOME.” SEE PERMANENT FILE FOR A COPY OF THE INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT.