Description: This silk dress, woven with a floral design, has pleats at the shoulders and enormous puffed sleeves. These were called gigot sleeves, after the French for ‘leg of mutton’. Note the lace pellerine collar used to cover the neckline (see also image 55619 for an example). A belt with a jewelled buckle completes the look. Jewellery in the 1830s included long neck chains suspending a watch, eyeglass, or even a scent bottle, and worn tucked into the belt.