Robe à la Française, ca. 1765, European, silk, Like the Mantua, the sack, or sacque, dress began life as an informal garment

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Robe à la Française, ca. 1765, European, silk, Like the Mantua, the sack, or sacque, dress began life as an informal garment. It was initially a French fashion, its defining feature being the row of two double box pleats sewn in at the center of the neckline at the back of the dress and falling to the hem

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