Man's waistcoat, 1770s, British; white silk satin, quilted, tamboured, altered 1870-1910 Man’s waistcoat with a round neckline, curving fronts and skirts reaching to the top of the thigh. Each front has a pocket and pointed pocket flap. The fronts and pocket flaps are made of white silk satin, the back of white worsted twill. The waistcoat is lined with bleached linen; the skirt and pocket-flap linings and front facings are white silk twill. The waistcoat is quilted-to-shape with tamboured white silk thread, in a pattern of a border around the pocket flaps, front edges and hems, and below the pockets; the fronts filled with parallel wavy lines. The quilting is padded with cotton wadding. There are 13 worked buttonholes along the left front with 13 embroidered buttons on the right front. The waistcoat was altered in the late 19th century, probably for theatre costume; an insertion of coarse linen was made at the centre-back seam.