Man’s waistcoat with a round neck, curving 2-piece sleeves, straight fronts and skirts reaching to between the top of the knee and mid-thigh. Each front has a pocket and shaped pocket flap. The fronts and pocket flaps are made of purple silk satin, quilted-to-shape with a border of ovals and diamonds on the pocket flaps, around the neck and along the front edges and hems; the rest filled with a diaper pattern. The back and sleeves are pieced, made of black figured satin. The waistcoat and sleeves are lined with unbleached fustian, the back skirts with black worsted twill, the fronts faced and front skirts lined with purple silk twill. There are 13 worked buttonholes on a strip of purple twill under the left front edge and 1 on each cuff. There are 13 corresponding buttons covered with purple silk thread, on the right front and 1 covered in black silk thread on the right cuff (1 on left missing).

The waistcoat has been altered, probably later in the 18th century; a collar of quilted purple silk was added.