. "Court dress consisting of a white silk mantua robe and petticoat embroidered with polychrome silks and silver threads.\n\nThe mantua is made of white ribbed silk embroidered to shape with flowers in long and short stitches and French knots. The back of the bodice is pleated. Stitched double pleats run over the shoulders to form robings. These merge with the skirt as basques, draped up by silver cords attached to silver thread buttons at the back of the waist. The skirt is folded sides to centre. Above-the-elbow length sleeves are medium-wide with deep turn-back cuffs. \n\nSeven-breadth petticoat with the leaves and the arcaded and shell pattern border are embroidered with silver thread on a copper core. The petticoat is shaped to take narrow side hoops, five feet at their widest."@en . . .