An evening jacket densely embroidered with black sequins, the borders with pink, lilac and pale yellow beads forming trailing stylised flowerheads within a band of old gold coloured sequins, 1930s; another of black devor worked with a pattern of fern leaves revealing a self-coloured chiffon ground, the hem and neckties applied with fringing; and another similar with a multi-coloured diamond lattice, the interlocking diamonds revealing the black chiffon ground, both 1920s (3)

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An evening jacket densely embroidered with black sequins, the borders with pink, lilac and pale yellow beads forming trailing stylised flowerheads within a band of old gold coloured sequins, 1930s; another of black devor worked with a pattern of fern leaves revealing a self-coloured chiffon ground, the hem and neckties applied with fringing; and another similar with a multi-coloured diamond lattice, the interlocking diamonds revealing the black chiffon ground, both 1920s (3)

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