The dress consists of a manteau (a gown worked in one piece) and a jupe (skirt). A so-called Watteau-pleat is fixed at the square-necked low back. The pleat is named after the French painter Antoine Watteau (1684-1721), who captures this voluminously hanging wealth of material in some of his paintings.
The front of the manteau gives a view over the bodice and the
inworked stomacher (a small, triangular stiffened breastplate)
as well as parts of the skirt, under which the body was squeezed
into a corset and a crinoline.
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