I think it is so in this case with the picture, that the dresses dont have
matching petticoats. You clearly see that in the lady right for the red
dress.
Also in the pictures i have of street life in Copenhagen.
But the example of Nancy Bradfields page 9 was excactly how i imagined they
would have made these dresses.
Thanks for guiding me into the right direction!
I guess it also was because i only looked for big pannier dresses, wich
there are none of.
Many thanks Dawn.
Bjarne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dawn Luckham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 4:48 PM
Subject: [h-cost] Dress Type
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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