Historic Fashion in Detail shows a "rose red ground with trails of white
flowers" with "a pleated English back (altered in 1760's) the silk is 1740
(p 88). As it is Fashion in Detail I don't know what the front of the gown
is like. There is a mantua 1750 (p90) that may look something like these
gowns from the distance the painting puts the subjects.
Nancy Bradfield's Costume in Detail shows several open robes with this back
dated as early as 1730. To look like the ladies in the painting, they
would need to be wearing matching (as opposed to contrasting)
petticoats. There is one (p5) that although it is an open robe, the skirts
are pleated all the way around to centre front which would give the look of
the same colour all the way around. Page 9 shows a closed robe c.1740-50
which looks like these gowns.
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