Without checking the book, that looks like the dress diagrammed in the
first edition of Blanche Payne's /_History of Costume: From the Ancient
Egyptians to the Twentieth Century./_ The first edition has diagrams of
43 garments that were replaced by text on 20th-century clothing in the
second edition. I'm going from memory, but I think the mantua Payne
took a pattern from is in the Metropolitan Museum. The photos at the
bottom of the page might be from a Met exhibit catalog or website.
Fran
Lavolta Press Books of Historic Patterns
http://www.lavoltapress.com
Not online, unfortunately, but here are two possibilities in book form:
Jean Hunnisett's "Period Costume for Stage and Screen, 1500-1800" has
a detailed pattern, description, and sewing guide to the mantua. Hill
and Bucknell's "The Evolution of Fashion" also makes the attempt.
Also, here's a modern attempt at same:
http://www.cdny.org/christine.html
- Hope
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