Man’s sleeved waistcoat with a round neck, curving fronts, 2-piece curved sleeves and skirts reaching to the top of the knee. Each front had a pocket opening and pointed pocket flap. The fronts, cuffs and pocket flaps are made of cream silk taffeta figured with satin weave in a pattern of leaves and pineapples; the backs and sleeves are made of cream silk twill. The waistcoat and sleeves are lined with bleached linen, the pockets with coarse linen. The fronts are faced and the skirts and pocket flaps lined with cream silk twill. The waistcoat is embroidered-to-shape with silver thread, frisé, strip, spangles, purl and foil in a dense pattern of large flowers and leaves on the cuffs and pocket flaps, along the front edges and hems, around the fonrt neck and pockets. There are 16 buttonholes bound with silver strip along the left front edge and 1 buttonhole worked with silk thread on each cuff. There are 24 silver passementerie buttons on the right front, 5 below each pocket and 1 on each cuff Man's sleeved waistcoat, 1730s, French; cream silk damask embroidered silver thread