Man’s waistcoat with a 2-inch (5 cm) standing collar, revers, straight fronts and hem, hip-length, with a welted pocket on each front. The fronts, collar, pocket welts and revers are made of cream silk taffeta. Two painted silk medallions, one depicting Justice and the other Hercules, have been applied below each pocket welt. The waistcoat is embroidered to shape with silk floss in white, brown and shades of pink and green, in a pattern of flowers, insects, crowns and ribbons on the collar, pocket welts, and along the front edges and hems. There are 10 worked buttonholes on the left front and 7 embroidered buttons on the right front edge.

The waistcoat was altered in the late 19th century, probably for theatre costume or a studio prop. The back was replaced, the fronts stitched to another waistcoat and later, the sides taken in.