allie
Women with coquettish airs were imposing in robes à la française and robes à l'anglaise throughout the period between 1720 and 1780. The robe à l'anglaise developed with a fitted back after the style of dress worn in England
bertie
Mitts, robe à la francaise and matching mitts, France, 1750-1770. Cream printed with brown meandering ribbons and polychrome floral sprays, open gown having elbow length sleeve with scalloped fan cuff, ruffled neckline and front with stomacher panel, skirt front trimmed with self bows, unlined.
shesawildflower
Robe � l’anglaise ca. 1780, Italy. Peking striped ivory silk, embroidered in silk thread polychrome with branches of flowers with applications of glitter of glass and metal and festooned with a ruched silk gauze, with pockets cut diagonally on the sides. Views: Side, Back, close up of bodice front and back, and detail of the embroidery. | Galleria del Costume di Palazzo Pitti
erika
Sleeve detail of a "Pierrot", short jacket, 1780s, France, with 6 metal buttons. The fabric is blue "Nattier" taffeta silk brocaded gold with "décors à la rivière". This "Pierrot" was often worn with an embroidered cotton gauze skirt. Fully lined with white linen. Pleated ribbon ivory silk faille on the neck. Photo villa-rosemaine
joanne
SILK BROCADE ROBE a L’ANGLAISE, CANADIAN, 1750 - 1775. Ivory silk brocaded with small tone on tone flowers and larger polychrome floral clusters, semi boned bodice with square-cut neckline and elbow length sleeve, pleated cuff decorated with fancy cord and polychrome tassels, trained open skirt with cord-trimmed furbelows, matching petticoat, bodice lined in cotton and linen.
bertie
Bows, robe à la francaise, England (Spitalfield's), 1760s, remodeled 1780s. Ivory ground silk taffeta woven with a narrow self weave stripe, with gently curving flower and leaf meanders in puce, shaded tangerine flowerheads, red berries and sage green foliage, alternating with small sprays of flowers in deep rose pink and ivory. Trimmed with same tufted silks and corded wire loops. Bows worn on sleeve ruffles.
bertie
France Woman’s Robe à la Française, textile circa 1750, constructed circa 1760 Costume/clothing principle attire/entire body, Linen plain weave with wool embroidery, a) Dress center back length: 60 in. (152.4 cm); b) Petticoat center front length: 34 1/2 in. (86.96 cm)