There is a Kirtle with a Ropa (I think that's what the over-dress is called)
over it in Janet Arnold. Oh lookhere's an image of it:
http://web.comhem.se/~u31138198/loosekirtle.html
and a diary of the making of the kirtle too.
I thought there was also a Ropa that went over this (It's
Lovely work! I'm so glad you shared it.
A friend of mine, pressed for time, once made a really nice Regency
with colored embroidery-- which she had painstakingly colored by hand
with fabric markers! It was indeed embroidered (part of the cloth),
but white-on-white. So she fixed that by
