Woman’s fancy dress stomacher made of pink silk satin, couched with silk cord and partially wrapped silver filé, parchment ‘leaves’ wrapped in pink silk floss and silk-wrapped purl, and embroidered with white and yellow silk floss. These are worked in French knots and satin stitch in a pattern of scrolling vines and flowers. The embroidery was recycled and pieced to make a stomacher for 19th-century fancy dress, lined with white silk taffeta and edged with machine lace. F, fancy dress, 1850-70, British, made of pink silk embriodered with gimp, 1660-80, French