Cummerbund

Cummerbund is a subject in art. The gallery holds 146 works in this subject in art, including works by George Bellows, Honoré Daumier and Arthur Bowen Davies.

A cummerbund is a broad waist sash, usually pleated, which is often worn with single-breasted dinner jackets (or tuxedos). The cummerbund was adopted by British military officers in colonial India, where they saw it worn by sepoys (Indian soldiers) of the British Indian Army.