He wore white gloves, a dignified long black coat, and matching pants and vest, and he carried a dark walking stick.
The news reports quoted him as saying he wore the vest to celebrate Sunday Mass in Apatzingán.
I pressed the dime-sized rubber button on my vest, which was linked to my radio.
To date, Gowdy has played his cards close to the vest as to what the committee will actually investigate.
In the photo, Sherman stands, dressed in an elaborate embroidered velvet frock coat and vest from the late eighteenth century.
He pulled his watch from the pocket of his vest, hanging on the bedpost.
And, firm and dauntless, Morton laid his hand on the giant's vest.
She heard him take off his coat and vest and hang them on the back of a chair.
She again touches it; it is drawn from her vest; it falls to the ground.
He dipped into his vest pocket and produced his silver stop watch.
1610s, "loose outer garment" (worn by men in Eastern countries or in ancient times), from French veste, from Italian vesta, veste "robe, gown," from Latin vestis, from vestire "to clothe" (see vest (v.)). The sleeveless garment worn by men beneath the coat was introduced by Charles II.
The King hath yesterday, in Council, declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes .... It will be a vest, I know not well how; but it is to teach the nobility thrift. [Pepys, "Diary," Oct. 8, 1666]
