Close-bodied gown

Robe a l'anglaise with matching petticoat, French,

178487, Cotton, metal, and silk. Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, 1991.204a, b
Side view of the robe a l'anglaise at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
Robe a l'Anglaise, 1785

2 See also
17001750 in fashion
17501795 in fashion

3 Notes
[1] Waugh, Norah (1968). The Cut of Womens Clothes:
1600-1930. New York: Routledge. pp. 6566, 6970,
72.
[2] Feshman et al (1983), p. 235
[3] Takeda and Spilker (2010), p. 212

Close-bodied gown or robe l'anglaise of purple and white

striped silk, French, 1785-90, LACMA, M.2007.211.931

4 References

A close-bodied gown, English nightgown, or robe

l'anglaise was a womens fashion of the 18th century.
Like the earlier mantua, from which it evolved,[1] the
back of the gown featured pleats from the shoulder,
stitched down to mould the gown closely to the body
until the fullness was released into the skirt. Through
the 1770s, the back pleats became narrower and closer
to the center back, and by the 1780s these pleats had
mostly disappeared and the skirt and bodice were cut
separately.[2][3] The gown was open in front, to reveal a
matching or contrasting petticoat, and featured elbowlength sleeves, which were nished with separate frills
called engageantes.

Ribeiro, Aileen: The Art of Dress: Fashion in England and France 17501820, Yale University Press,
1995, ISBN 0-300-06287-7
Freshman, Philip, Dorothy J. Schuler, and Barbara
Einzig, eds (1983). An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century, Abrams/Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, ISBN 0-87587-111-9
Takeda, Sharon Sadako, and Kaye Durland Spilker
(2010). Fashioning Fashion: European Dress in Detail, 1700 - 1915, LACMA/Prestel USA, ISBN 9783-7913-5062-2
Waugh, Norah, The Cut of Womens Clothes: 16001930, New York, Routledge, 1968, ISBN 0-87830026-0

Gallery
Robe l'anglaise, cotton embroidered in wool,
shown with an embroidered kerchief, England,
1780s. LACMA, M.59.25a-c
Robe a l'anglaise. Front view of dress in previous
image.
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