> The English mantua you refer to is in a book > called "18th Century Women's Costume at Blaise > Castle House" by Helen Burnett and Cleo Witt. > Printed by Bristol City Museum. However, the > mantua is dated c.1738-41. It still has its matching petticoat.
I just found my livejournal with my list of extant early mantua (as opposed to the very stylised later mantua) and found the book I had seen it in: http://www.livejournal.com/users/pinkdiamond/334570.html Title: Women's costumes 1600-1750, [by] Zillah Halls. Published: London, H.M.S.O., 1969. Other Author(s): Halls, Zillah. I didn't manage to snaffle the date of the mantua but I can read the date of the stomacher as being 1720-30. The petticoat looks to be a quilted tube basically. The text I can make out says: "... open robe worn over a separate corset and separate skirt was established. The elaborately-arranged skirt, pinned or buttoned back, is occasionally though not frequently found throughout the first half of the 18th century; there are four examples in the London Museum." (view of the back of the mantua and petticoat) "13 stomacher 1720-30, (no.[??]) The stomacher was a separate triangular piece, usually embroidered, which filled the space in the front of the bodice." (view of the front of the Mantua, pettcoat and stomacher. I adore this example. It's so very simple but effective. The stomacher has a fine pattern embroidered with horizontal lines. Unfortunately the image on the Sally Queen and Associates page has gone, I think it is in the 2000 calendar. I'm going to email to ask if this is so. I seem to recall it being in the colletcion of the Royal Ontaria Museum, but there is no info on their site. regards, michaela de bruce http://costumes.glittersweet.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.14/129 - Release Date: 11/10/2005 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
