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Pale green watered silk, the kind whose wavy figure is pressed into the weave rather than printed. Two pieces: a fitted bodice and a full gored skirt. The neckline is off the shoulder and buried in cream lace, with short puffed sleeves. Bare shoulders mean evening, a ball or a formal dinner. In 1894 sleeves were at their largest; here the volume went into lace instead. Flaven was a New York dressmaking house. Given by Mrs. John C. Tomlinson in 1965, seventy-one years after it was made.