A man’s coat of plum-coloured, cut silk velvet with a 2⅞-inch (7.2 cm), turned-down collar and revers and curving, 2-piece sleeves ending in cuffs, 2 inches (5 cm) deep. The fronts are cut-away at the waist, with pleats 2-inch (5 cm) deep below the hip set beside the centre back. Each front has a pocket and rectangular pocket flap, with another, buttoned flap underneath; the centre-back seam is open below the hip. The coat and pocket flaps are lined with plum-coloured cotton twill, the pockets with bleached linen. The coat is true double-breasted, with 3 worked buttonholes on each front edge and 3 self-covered buttons on each front, set back from the edge. There are 2 worked buttonholes and 2 self-covered buttons on each cuff and a button at the top of the pleats.