Waistcoat of LtCol Stephens, 1st Virginia Regiment, c. 1756.

Waistcoat attributed to LtCol Andrew Stephens, second-in-command to Col Washington,

1st Virginia Regiment (c. 1750-60) [1]

  

Washington in the uniform of a British Provincial Colonel,

 by Peale (1772), Washington and Lee Univ. 

The Stephens waistcoat is almost identical.



Note the raw edge of the fabric on the arm hole detail.


[1] Smithsonian online collection, The Price of Freedom: Americans at War, http://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/exhibition/flash.html?path=1.5.r_446, accessed 26 Jan 12.