Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, revers, straight fronts and hem, hip-length, with a pocket on each front. The fronts, collar and revers are made of cream silk satin, the back of cream woollen twill. The waistcoat is lined with fustian; the pockets with glazed linen. A ½-inch (1.1 cm) ribbon of black silk velvet is applied to the front neckline, revers, above the pockets and along the front edges and hems. The waistcoat is tamboured with white silk thread in horizontal, zig-zag stripes and embroidered with brown silk floss and chenille threads, silver filé, spangles and foil, in a pattern of circles between the stripes and tassels and swags below the pockets. It has a double-breasted effect with 10 embroidered buttons with 12 worked buttonholes on the left front and 12 embroidered buttons set back from the right front edge.