Bodice front showing bobbin lace and silk velvet ribbon trim, handmade buttonholes and fabric-covered buttons.

Full coat sleeve, showing underarm stain.

Wrong side back showing piecing and handstitched seams.

Neckline facing.

Wrong side front, showing hand sewn darts, metal eyes.

Detail of buttons and bobbin lace. Piecing at CF bottom edge.

Sleeve head decoration.

Sleevehead decoration.

Wrong side armscye, showing glazed cotton lining sleeves.

Detail of cuff, showing piecing behind the lace.

Tissue-thin white silk cuff facing.

Cuff facing (damage).

Lower CF showing piecing, hand sewn buttonholes.

Bodice back. Sleeve has come unstitched revealing hand sewn piping. Piecing at lower edge CB. Piecing was sewn to closely match but the fabric print was not matched at the seams.

Matching Swiss waist decorated with ruched olive green silk ribbon.

Hand sewn lacing eyelets.

Fragment of original lacing cord.

Waist was made using the body of an evening bodice with the sleeves removed. Neckline and shoulder areas were folded to the inside and tacked. Clever girl. Faux back seams, original boning. Hand sewn.

Another view, wrong side, back.