. . "A man\u2019s coat of pale salmon-pink silk taffeta with a 3\u00BD -inch (8.8 cm) turn-down. 2-piece collar, with a point at centre back. The curving 2-piece sleeves end in cuffs 4\u00BC-inch (10.7 cm) deep. The fronts curve from neck to hem with pleats 3\u00BC-inch (8.2 cm) deep, below the hip set at the side back. Each front has a pocket with scalloped pocket flap; the centre-back seam is open below the hip. Under the pocket flap and above the pocket opening is a narrow strip with a buttonhole in the centre, but no corresponding button. The back is lined with unbleached linen, the sleeves and pockets with glazed white cotton. The fronts and pocket flaps are lined, and skirts faced with blue silk sarsenet. The collar, cuffs, pleats, fronts and pocket flap are edged with a narrow ribbon of ivory and yellow striped silk grosgrain with silver strip and thread. There are 10 worked buttonholes along the left front and 10 corresponding passementerie buttons with pale pink silk, silver strip, thread and spangles along the right front, at the top and hem of the pleats and the top of the centre back opening."@en . .