At 14:42 12/11/2006, you wrote:
Hi,
This is excactly what there are not. No patterns of such a dress.
Because the dress only consist of one skirt, i wonder how the skirt
would be attached to the bodice.
Could it be that the whole front skirt was put to some tape ties,
where it would be attached to the back of the skirt at the middle of
the bodice, and then the pointed bodice would be pinned in the front
over the skirt?
What i would be very interrested in was how the cut would have ben
like in the back, perhaps the fourreau style or the mantua style
with sewn down pleats?
It is strange that all costume historians leaved this type out,
because it surely was very popular, also in Denmark.
Besides its not as much fabric consuming as a francaise is or
anglaise for that matter, because it only has one skirt.
Bjarne
There are three dresses with separate bodices, and one with an en
fourreau back, all with patterns and detailed drawings of front and
back, in "Patterns of Fashion 1660-1860", by Janet Arnold. One even
has a zig-zag style collar, similar to the one you are looking at
Bjarne. I've made this dress pattern up and it works really well. In
fact I've made all of them, and providing you only use the pattern
pieces as a guide (one back piece is really peculiar) they work
beautifully. (Many of the dresses on this site are of this style.
http://www.minuetcompany.org/gallery.html I made a number of outfits
for this group, bioh men and women.)
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