Man's waistcoat, 1775-80, British; ivory silk taffeta, embroidered with silk floss 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 ivory silk taffeta, the back of linen. The waistcoat fronts, pockets and pocket flaps are lined with bleached linen. The waistcoat is embroidered-to-shape with silk floss in white and shades of pink, blue, purple and green, in a pattern of roses and leaves on the pocket flaps, front edges and hems, and below the pockets. The fronts are filled with repeated floral sprigs embroidered in silk floss. There are 10 worked buttonholes along the left front with 11 embroidered buttons on the right front.