Have to leave soon for house to be shown

[chocolatepot]

Working on my descriptive text and going through my patterns, and I'm happy to note that my hypothesis about the lower edge of the bodice of closed-front gowns - that when the point is wider, it's earlier, and when it's ... pointier, it's later - seems to hold true. Which makes it even more likely that my closed-front mantua with a very flat lower edge (and the one in the MMA I linked to before) really was originally made like that in the early 1750s. But how. I mean ... dang.

I'm going through and putting photos in. The pictures I took are not publication-worthy and I'm planning to draw all of these at levels of detail somewhere between Arnold (simply not possible for me) and Waugh (too cartoony) to show the overall look, but at a certain point my descriptions of fabric pattern are not helpful and I think my pictures are good enough to show just a portion of skirt or bodice.