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Bedgown worn by Mary Jane Phillips of Pontlotyn when a member of Dame Clara Novello Davies' Royal Welsh Ladies Choir. She was the choir's contralto soloist.

Bedgown, made from tabby woven wool fabric. Thin lines of red check on black ground (red = stripes of either two or three thin lines, each consisting of two picks). 4.5cm wide red ribbon bows at both short-sleeved cuffs (consisting of two large loops and two smaller loops on top). Red ribbon trim (ruffle) around neck, tied into bow at centre front. Below this point, the gown is fastened with seven black-painted steel hooks and stitched loops. Two black-painted steel hoops are stitched to centre front opening (12.5cm above hem). Bodice section is lined with tabby-woven cotton fabric (brown yarns in vertical direction, white yarns in horizontal direction). Some of the raw edges are pinked.

Neck has additional lining of brown twill-woven cellulosic strip (width = c.3cm). Darts in upper bodice: two on each side of front and two under arm. Centre back seam. All darts as well as seam have been altered (made wider), with remains of original threads still visible on either side of current seams. All seams are machine stitched. Ribbon trimming and hooks are hand stitched. A full-width section of fabric (selvage to selvage = 66cm) has been inserted at centre back of skirt and gathered into centre back of waist. 2.5cm turn-back at lower hem, at centre front of skirt, fabric turn-back faces outwards (also supporting the idea that the corners are folded back onto themselves).

Remains of black stitching thread along lower hem and at 24cm above hem (as well as the lower 24cm of the centre front opening). The stitches have been cut in such a way to suggest that whatever has been secured by these stitches was attached to the front of the garment, rather than the back.