dress

Dress in finely ribbed silk, royal blue with cream machine lace trim, separate bodice and skirt, bodice has high neck and plastron front of cream sateen covered with two types of machine lace, blue pointed collar starting low to give decollete effect, bands of vertical tucks extending down front from under collar to waist, long sleeves with turn back cuffs, long flared gored skirt with loose pleats at centre back and pleated frill at hem below band of pintucks, about 1900