Man’s court waistcoat with a 2¼-inch (6 cm) standing collar, straight fronts and skirts reaching to the hip. There are no pockets, only a pointed pocket flap on each front. The fronts, collar and pocket flaps are made of ivory silk satin, the back of fustian. The waistcoat and pocket flaps are lined with linen; the collar of ivory silk twill; the front facings are ivory silk twill. The waistcoat is tamboured-to-shape with silk thread in yellow and shades of green, pink, purple and blue in a pattern of flowers and bunches of grapes, on the pocket flaps, collar and along the front edges and hems. The fronts are tamboured with a repeating pattern of floral sprigs. There are 8 worked buttonholes along the left front and 1 on the collar, the top 1 and 1 on the collar are uncut. There are 7 embroidered buttons on the right front.
The waistcoat was made from a waistcoat shape made in the 1770s. The collar with buttonhole is actually the neckline outline; the skirts are cut shorter at the side seams than at the centre front.