Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, revers, straight fronts and straight hem, hip-length. Each front has a welted pocket. The fronts and revers are made of white matelassé cotton, the back of bleached cotton. The waistcoat and pockets are lined with bleached cotton. A ⅜-inch (0.8 cm) cotton braid, painted with red circles and dots is applied on the pocket welt, around the front neck and revers and along the front edges and hems. The waistcoat is embroidered-to-shape with tamboured silk thread and silver filé, in a pattern of swags on the pocket welts, front collar and revers, along the front edges and hems. There are 7 worked buttonholes along the left front and 7 embroidered buttons on the right front. Man's waistcoat, 1780s, British; white cotton matelassé, applied painted braid, tamboured silver thread