Man's blue satin figured nightgown with yellow and various shades of pink silk, interlined with wool and lined with yellow silk. Designed to fit loosely about the body. Opens down the front without fastenings. The full width of the silk is used in continuous lengths to form each front and back without shoulder seams. Additional width is created by the insertion of gussets at the sides. Each gusset is pieced together.
Some shaping has been introduced in the side seams under the arms by taking a maximum of 2.5 inches out under the arms which tapers to nothing where the full width of the silk is used from about hip level to the hem.
The sleeves are cut from about 1.5 widths of silk using the excess width of material at the shoulders to create the upper sleeves, and the remainder is formed from the addition of a full width folded widthwise.
There are only three main seams in the garment, the centre back and two side seams which continue to form both sleeve seams under the arm. A small upright collar (3 inches high x 7 inches long) is attached at the neck. The lining is cut in the same manner as the outer silk, all the inside seams match those on the outside.
The outer silk has a 'bizarre' design of a balustrade and half an arch in yellow on a light blue ground. Exotic flowers in 2 shades of pink sprout from the balustrade. As front and back are cut as one the pattern goes up the back over the shoulders and down the front.
Satin of 5 with every 4th thread used also for binding the pattern in 4/1 twill. There is no separate ground weft but 2 pattern wefts, one yellow and one changing as required by the pattern from pale to deep pink.
Thread count of 128 to inch approx.
Decoupure of 5.