Green’s Dictionary of Slang

east and west n.1

[rhy. sl.]

1. the male chest.

[UK]G.R. Sims ‘Tottie’, Dagonet Ditties 126: In my ‘East and West’ Dan Cupid / Shot a shaft and let it there.

2. a vest [note SE vest is an undergarment; SAmE vest is a waistcoat].

[Aus]Sun. Times (Perth) 21 Oct. 4/8: But not content with taking one, / Another those poachers pinched, / And swift (in the words of the slangful gun) / My ‘East and West’ ‘half-inched’.
[UK]J. Manchon Le Slang.
[US]A.J. Pollock Und. Speaks 35/2: East and West, a vest.
[US]St. Vincent Troubridge ‘Some Notes on Rhyming Argot’ in AS XXI:1 Feb. 46: east and west. The vest (Origin uncertain, but probably English.) Probably American. The vest is an undergarment in English.
[US]Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Sl. (2nd edn).
[UK]S.T. Kendall Up the Frog.
[UK]B. Kirkpatrick Wicked Cockney Rhy. Sl.

3. (also east west) the female breast.

[US]Maledicta II:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 118: Elsewhere Aylwin lists a few more ‘Vulgarities’: [...] words for breasts (brace and bits, east and west, Jersey City, thousand pities, towns and cities, fainting fits).
[UK]B. Dark Dirty Cockney Rhy. Sl. 50: east west breast.