Man’s waistcoat with a round neck, curving 2-piece sleeves, slightly curved fronts and skirts reaching to the top of the knee. Each front has a pocket and shaped pocket flap. The fronts, back skirts, cuffs and pocket flaps are made of silver tissue with an ivory taffeta ground, the back and sleeves of white silk satin, the pocket flaps and front facing of ivory silk twill, the pockets of fustian. The waistcoat is embroidered-to-shape with silk chenille thread in shades of red, pink, purple, green and brown and silver purl, in a pattern of large leaves and flowers, on the cuffs and pocket flaps, around the pockets and along the front edges and hems. There are 14 worked buttonholes on a strip of ivory silk twill under the left front edge, 3 worked through the embroidery below and 1 on each cuff. There were 27 (1 now missing) buttons covered with silver thread from neck to hem on the right front and 1 on each cuff. The front, back and sleeve linings were later removed, revealing the front and sleeve interlinings and linen backing to the embroidery. The side openings below the hip have been sewn up. Man's sleeved waistcoat, 1730s, British; silver tissue embroidered with chenille thread, lining removed