A man's waistcoat with rounded neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to the mid-thigh. Each front has a pocket and shaped pocket flap. The fronts are made of ivory satin, tamboured with silk chenille and floss threads of shades of pink and green, in an embroidered-to-shape pattern of floral sprigs and ribbon swags with bows. There are 13 worked buttonholes along the left front with 13 embroidered buttons on the right front, 2 on each pocket flap and 1 below each pocket. The waistcoat was altered in the late 19th century, probably for theatrical costume. The fronts have been relined with white silk twill. The back has been removed and replace with two pieces of coarse, unbleached linen, each with eyelet holes along the centre back.