A man’s coat of poplin with silk warp and faun-coloured worsted weft, striped with yellow and ivory in satin weave, with a 2¼-inch (5.7 cm), turned-down collar, revers and curving, 2-piece sleeves ending in working mariner’s cuffs, 3¼ inches (8.2 cm) deep. The fronts are cut straight across at the waist, with pleats ½-inch (1.2 cm) deep, beside the centre back. Each front a shaped pocket flap; the right side has a welted pocket underneath. The centre-back seam is open below the hip. The back and sleeves are lined with bleached linen, the skirts with pink and green ribbed cotton, the pockets with beige cotton twill; the pocket flaps are self-lined. The coat is true double-breasted; there are 3 worked buttonholes and 3 cut-steel buttons on each front. The cuffs have 3 cut-steel buttons and cut buttonholes; there is a button at the top, centre and hem of the pleats.