A dress of black silk faille, the front panels of the skirt and bodice brocaded in silks with posies of violets, the ground woven with self-coloured large-scale ribbon bows, the cuffs and gauze bodice infill appliqué with brocaded violet cut-outs, trimmed with chemical lace, labelled in the waistband Affleck & B[?]in, Manchester, circa 1905