Day outfit coat and skirt embroidered silk and cotton canvas.
The jacket is single-breasted, hip-length, seamed and fitted, but with flared and pleated tails. It has curved pockets at the hips. The fancy, stepped collar and the cuffs of the leg-of- mutton sleeves are embroidered in beige silk cord in a formal floral pattern.
The skirt has the front panel cut straight and channel-seamed. The back is widely flared with central box- pleats. The fullness is controlled by elastic stays on the inside. The suit is unlined but the seams are bound, and there is stiffening inside the sleeve heads. A label stitched inside the neck has Doucet Paris machine woven in yellow on a beige ribbon. G0841 is written on a tape inside the skirt waist. Beige was a popular colour for travelling clothes because it did not show the dust. When this outfit was washed by the Museum's Conservation Department, it shed quantities of red-brown dust, suggesting it was possibly a souvenir of an Egyptian tour.