. . . "A man's waistcoat with round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching between mid and top of the thigh. Each front has a pocket and shaped pocket flap. The fronts are made of white silk, self-striped with plain and twill weave, brocaded with a woven-to-shape pattern of undulating ribbons of silver strip edged with flowers and leaves in green and pink silks. The right back is made of ivory worsted twill and the left back of bleached fustian. The waistcoat is lined with bleached linen, the fronts faced and skirts lined with white silk twill. There are 13 buttonholes worked in silver thread along the left front and 13 corresponding buttons covered with silver thread and strip on the right front."@en .