Pair of shapes for a man’s waistcoat of cream silk satin, tamboured with coloured silk floss and chenille. Each shape has a round neck, slightly curved fronts, shaped pocket flaps and short skirts reaching to the top of the thigh. It is worked in a floral trail between parallel lines along the front edges, hem and pocket flaps. There are outlines for 13 buttonholes along the left front edge. Circular motifs for 14 buttons are embroidered in unworked spaces of the right shape; another 1 has been left unworked. There are 2 separate flowers worked on the right front. The pocket flap and hem of the left front are unfinished. The outlines of the fronts have been tacked in silk thread and there is a coarse linen backing to the larger areas of embroidery. At each end of each shape is stitched a coarse linen tape for lacing the shapes into the embroidery frame, the holes remaining in the tapes. Remnants of thread on the selvedges of the left thread suggest the shapes were sewn together during the embroidery process.