Sack-Back Gown (robe à la française) Dress Made of Printed Fabric, Ladies' Costume, 'demi-parure' of glazed printed cotton with delicately graceful pattern of vertical stripes and scattered bouquets, partially lined and sewn by hand. The suit, which is intended to be worn over a wide flattened hoop skirt ('panier'), consists of two parts: 1) a straight four-lane skirt with two hip slits for pockets, sewn into the back of the deep contiguous pleats at the waistband, probably in far apart pleats sewn on either side of a smooth middle section (is now modernized with wrinkles [1946]) and with, at

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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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