A woman's gown of bombazine with fine red silk warp and coarser brown wool weft, twill-woven and embroidered in floral sprigs with coarse coloured silk twist. The gown is in the English (tight-back) style, open at the front, with elbow-length sleeves. The bodice meets at the centre front. The bodice and sleeves are lined with linen. The gown is made of 3 widths of bombazine, with a half-width on either side of the front. The pleats at the back are stitched down and a waist seam runs from the back pleats to the front, with the skirts flat pleated. They are held in place with stitches 3 cm below the waist seam on the inside. There are pocket openings in the side seams of the skirts. An edging of light blue silk ribbon is appliquéd flat around the neck.

The gown originally had three scalloped sleeve ruffles, edged with the blue ribbon. At some point, probably in the early 1780s, these were removed, stitched together and re-sewn higher on the sleeve to make a cuff.