dress

Dress in silk brocade, plum ground with plum and white leaf shapes with black outlines and lines between, high, round stand-up collar, bodice front fastening to slightly pointed waistband, bodice front with vertical stitched down tucks below neck and centre front piece pinched at waist with silk pieces extending over, long sleeves tight at top with stitched down tucks widening below elbow and gathered into narrow cuff, back bodice shaped to v at waist, fairly full skirt flat in front and loosely pleated at back, slight train, about 1902 to 1903