What is a sacque patterned uniform jacket?

[major bill]

Here goes my Civil War uniform term of the week.

While reading about early Civil War uniforms from Pennsylvania I saw men of the 95th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry wore 'sacque pattern jackets'. The term took me a couple minutes to think about what it meant. I was sure I had seen 'sacque' before, but had trouble remembering where. In my mind I saw it as a term for womens clothing. I looked the term up in my data base to understand it.

In fact sacque is associated with women sacque dressing gowns and children's clothing. When the term is used for Civil War era men's uniforms it means a short rounded jacket similar to a Zouave jacket, but unlike Zouave jackets, sacque pattern jackets button at the neck.

 

[RedRover]

A "sacque" as in a jacket as worn by Zouaves, that to the American lads was akin the fashionable ladies' "sacque."

Here's a ladies' "sacque" from the 1860s...

The regimental history mentions of their zouave uniform...that it was pattered like the "sacque."

Some photographs...

 

[Klaudly]

Similar zouave sacque pattern for Orderly Sergeant Eugene L. Johnston of Kentucky.

 

[truyle]

That is very interesting. I wonder if there's any kind of pattern that could be used or altered to make one?