Dress: bodice, skirt, petticoat and handkerchief, lilac silk, English or French, ca.1860 Dress of lilac-coloured ribbed silk consisting of a bodice and skirt, trimmed with satin ribbon of a paler tone and edgings of machine-made lace. The bodice is close-fitting, open in a V-shaped front with stomacher and lappets; it has long sleeves tapering to the wrists, with dentated epaulettes at the shoulders. There is a narrow ribbon waist-band with bows of moderate size both back and front. The skirt is plain, cut full with short train.