Man’s waistcoat with a round neck, straight fronts, curving 2-piece sleeves and skirts reaching to the top of the knee. Each front had a pocket opening and shaped pocket flap. The fronts, sleeves and pocket flaps are made of fine bleached linen twill. The waistcoat is embroidered-to-shape with linen thread with satin stitch, French knots, couched thread, drawn-thread and pulled-fabric work in a pattern of large flowers and leaves on the pocket flaps and cuffs, around the front neck and pockets, and along the front edges and hems. There are 5 buttonholes outlined in couched thread, but not cut, along the left front edge, 1 at the neck and 4 at the waist, and 2 (only 1 cut) on each cuff. One Dorset thread button remains on the right cuff.

The waistcoat was extensively altered in the late 19th century, probably for theatre costume. The front linings and pockets were removed and the pocket flaps stitched down. The sleeves and armholes were enlarged, the back replaced and the buttons on the front removed.