Muslin sack-back court dress, c1780

Muslin sack-back court dress (detail). White Indian cotton muslin embroidered with trailing sprays of flowers and leaves in silver wire and silver strip, trimmed with silver lace and gimp. The sack-back was a fashionable 18th-century gown with the fabric at the back arranged in box pleats at the shoulders, falling loose to the ground with a slight train. The dress would have been worn with a wide square hoop under the petticoat

1780 18th Century 18th century 18th-century Arranged Gimp Hoop Loose Muslin Petticoat Pleats Slight Sprays Strip Trailing Trimmed

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