Single-breasted waistcoat, with a shawl collar, of white or cream silk interlined with buckram. The waistcoat has seven small, domed gilt brass buttons with the Honourable East India Company coat of arms on a lined ground and surrounded by a narrow, raised flat border inside a rope-twist border. The buttons are fastened to the waistcoat through an eyelet and then secured by a brass pin through the shank. The buttonholes are edged in white thread. There are two pockets on the front, both lined with a white cotton/linen fabric. The front is edged with a fine tabby-weave white cotton piping.