A two-piece day dress (jacket and skirt) of dark burgundy voided cut silk velvet and wool in late 19th century style. The jacket of voided cut velvet with a floral and foliage design is tailored with a high collar, long tapered sleeves, fitted wrists and waist, and gathered paniers that fall over the sides and are drawn up in the back over the skirt and a bustle that would have been worn beneath it. Fourteen (originally 15) elaborate metal buttons and corresponding buttonholes provide closure down the front from collar to below the waist. A small applied pocket in matching fabric is found at the left hip. The skirt is of a coordinating plain dark burgundy material with an apron of voided velvet ending in scallops above a series of boxed pleats, each ornamented with ruching and appliquéd with a single floral motif of the same voided velvet. Below this a plain pleated ruffle finishes the skirt at the bottom. The bottom of the skirt is lined in buckram.