English Gents Three Piece Dress Suit. Pink silk faille with figured stripe waistcoat and breeches, with a silk satin quilted waistcoat. Quilted waistcoat with band of green trim, with small sequin flowerheads, repeated to fronts, and pocket plackets. Additional sequin and embroidered panels under plackets. Quilted waistcoat with brown embroidered band to collar, and lower edge, around button-holes to pocket flaps, and below and with thirteen embroidered buttons. Breeches with two central and two side buttons for front placket and four buttons to lower hem and with a band of trim for the lower hem present. Brown ink X and 8 to first waistcoat; 253 7th and 18 X to quilted waistcoat; 203 crossed out and no 2 to breeches. English. Late 18th Century, circa 1770. {Approximate dimensions: 13" shoulders, 36" underarms; 38" L., primary waistcoat. 12 3/4" shoulders, 31" underarms; 28 1/2" L., quilted waistcoat; 38" waist, 26 1/2" L., breeches.}. Provenance: Sotheby's, 1999 auction tag. All three articles with some stains, light threads, and the lightweight waistcoat with tears to back. Light shattering and stains to underarms; and additional staining. Light unintentional ombre to color of garments, due to sunlight and or storage. Quilted waistcoat with green replacement embroidery to part. Loss to one embroidered button and to two plain breeches for front placket. Loose threads, minor replaced threads, throughout. Quilted waistcoat possibly associated.