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Woman's Dress (Jacket and Petticoat)Textile: 1750-1775; reconstructed: 1770s

Not on view
18th-century women's ensemble on a mannequin: cream fabric jacket, full skirt, and cap printed with scattered red and blue floral sprigs, with ruffled white cuffs and pleated stomacher panel
Museum display of an 18th-century woman's ensemble on a mannequin, shown from the back: cream cotton gown printed with scattered floral sprigs in coral and blue-gray, featuring back pleats, fitted bodice, and full skirt, paired with a wide-brimmed straw hat with coral trim, against a dark blue background.
Historic women's ensemble displayed on a headless mannequin: cream silk gown with printed red and blue floral sprigs, featuring a pleated jacket bodice with puffed sleeves over a full skirt, paired with a white linen cap and green shoes, shown in three-quarter view against a gray background.
18th-century woman's jacket in cream silk or cotton, embroidered with scattered red and blue floral sprigs, displayed on a mannequin; open front reveals a heavily pleated ivory stomacher; sleeves end in ruffled cuffs with white linen engageantes.
Embroidered textile, cream linen ground with repeating floral motifs in blue and rose-red thread, featuring stylized blooms and leaves arranged in vertical bands with dense counted-stitch technique.
Title
Woman's Dress (Jacket and Petticoat)
Place Made
France
Date Made
Textile: 1750-1775; reconstructed: 1770s
Medium
Linen warp and cotton weft plain weave (fustian) with wool discontinuous supplementary weft patterning
Dimensions
Center back length (Jacket): 24 5/8 in. (62.55 cm) Center back length (Petticoat): 36 in. (91.44 cm)
Credit Line
Mrs. Alice F. Schott Bequest
Accession Number
M.67.8.74a-b
Classification
Costumes
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Blum, Dilys. Illusion and Reality: Fashion in France, 1700-1900. Houston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1987.
  • Arnold, Janet, Jenny Tiramani, and Luca Costigliolo. Patterns of Fashion: The Content, Cut, Construction and Context of Bodies, Stays, Hoops and Rumps c. 1595-1795. London: The School of Historical Dress, 2018.