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Waistcoats back then were often of bright colors.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 6, 2018

Waistcoats, striped trousers, moth-chewed chambray shirts with tall collars and comically long sleeves.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Waistcoats were much the same, and were cut to the length of the coats, or about four inches shorter; they were buttoned higher, the lace often falling outside.

From Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Hughes, Talbot

Waistcoats were left open well down to the waist; some of these were nearly of the same length as the coat, the skirt being often edged with deep gold fringe.

From Dress design An Account of Costume for Artists & Dressmakers by Hughes, Talbot

It depends on the Colonel of every Regiment, to order what Waistcoats and Trimming he pleases for the Clothes.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von