Dress from Afghanistan - on display at the 'Money Talks' exhibition held at Leeds City Museum in 2022

Wide and short black cotton dress with deep, straight sleeves and a very full gored skirt. The dress is heavily embroidered on the front with coloured stitching, and white beads, coins, coin-like objects, and small metal ornaments sewn on. The back is plain, and cut twice from hem to waist for insertion of gores.

Photographs by Nick Singleton.