This pattern is for a knitted vest, a Victorian undergarment. It was published in Butterick’s The Art of Knitting in 1892 and republished in Dainty Work for Pleasure and Profit in 1902. It may have been published elsewhere as well.

It is finely knitted in silk yarn in a modified rib stitch. The neck, armscye, and hem edges are finished with crochet, and the neck is threaded with ribbon.

Use Belding’s knitting silk and two No. 17 steel needles, 12 inches long.

The front and back of the vest are made alike in 2 pieces, each knitted straight, from the lower edge to the neck, when the shaping of the latter and the shoulder straps begins as below directed. The garment is sewed or crocheted together under the arms and on the shoulders, and a gusset, knitted separately, is joined in each under-arm seam at the bottom of the vest, to give breadth at the hips. A very slender figure will not require these gussets.