A sack dress and petticoat of self-coloured striped silk, brocaded in red and green silks and silver metal thread with posies of roses and other flowers and a trailing lace pattern, the buttoned compère style stomacher attached to the bodice, 1770s, altered late 19th century and later with dressmaker label, Colley, in the waistband

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A sack dress and petticoat of self-coloured striped silk, brocaded in red and green silks and silver metal thread with posies of roses and other flowers and a trailing lace pattern, the buttoned compère style stomacher attached to the bodice, 1770s, altered late 19th century and later with dressmaker label, Colley, in the waistband
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