Man's waistcoat of white silk taffeta, British, 1780-85, embroidered with coloured silks and pastes 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 taffeta, the back of bleached linen. The waistcoat and pockets are lined with linen, the pocket flaps with white silk taffeta; the front skirt linings and front facings are white silk twill. The waistcoat is embroidered-to-shape with silver purl, glass pastes and silk floss in shades of brown, pink, purple and blue in a pattern of daisies and ribbons, on the pocket flaps, below the pockets and around the front neck, edges and hems. There are 12 worked buttonholes along the left front, with 12 embroidered buttons on the right front. The waistcoat was altered for size in the 18th century; a wide strip of fustian was inserted into the centre-back seam.