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Pair of slate quarryman's trousers that belonged to Trevor Williams who worked as a slate quarryman at Maenofferen Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog, between about 1935 and 1960. White fustian trousers with white button fastening (thirteen buttons along front of waistband, and two buttons on rear of waistband). Designed to be worn with braces.

This pair of trousers is an example of the everyday work clothing worn by quarrymen. According to Professor R. Merfyn Jones in his book ‘The North Wales Quarrymen, 1874 – 1922’ (page 35) :- “The quarryman’s dress was even more distinctive than his diet; corduroy trousers, hob-nailed boots and a flat cap came to be the distinctive bade of the quarryman in the twentieth century, but in the nineteenth the quarryman’s normal; dress was of white fustian…”