Purple bodice with lace and matching skirt

A silk purple bodice with lace and a matching skirt. The bodice (a) is made of dark purple silk satin and has a high band collar. The yoke is made of dark purple high pile velvet with two cut outs on each side of the center front opening. The cut outs are finished with bound seams and are filled with ruched yellow silk satin. A vertical panel of ruched yellow silk satin is stitched to the piped seam edge of the center front opening at the yoke. Purple silk satin is gathered, and machine stitched to the yoke’s bottom edge. The bodice is pleated at the bottom along the center front opening. An additional flap of fabric made of the same silk satin is hand stitched to bottom of the bodice at the proper right. The short, large puff sleeves are elbow length, they are gathered at the shoulder and above the elbow. The bottom portion of the sleeves are made of a straight cut band with machine stitched self-fabric gathered trim. A purple silk satin ribbon is hand stitched to the bottom of the sleeve hidden by the ruffled trim. A five inch long panel of cotton machine Chantilly bobbin lace is hand stitched to the bottom of the sleeves. The lace has rounded scalloped edges and floral patterning. The edge of the bodice is bound in purple silk satin. The back of the collar has a center back seam. The yoke on the back mirrors the bodice’s front but with three cut outs instead of two. The back of the bodice is made of five panels excluding the yoke. Purple silk satin is gathered, and machine stitched to the yoke’s bottom edge. Two pleats are sewn to each side of the center back seam. Yellow silk satin set on the bias lines the collar. The bodice closes with fifteen alternating metal hooks and eyes tacked to cotton at the center front. Four pieces of metal boning are set into the interior, two on the proper left, one on the proper right and one at the center back. Brown net is hand stitched to the interior overtop of the lining as a previous conservation treatment.