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Surviving Robe à la française within the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York features a matching petticoat and is shown with an elaborate stomacher. Waistcoat (Garthwaite/Lekeux) (1747) of silk brocade woven to form, design by Anna Maria Garthwaite, collection of the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art. English gentleman of 1738 wears a wide-hipped formal coat with utilized lace over a plainer contrasting hip-length waistcoat and crimson breeches. Upper-class males usually wore a cane as part of their outfits, suspending it by a loop from one among their waistcoat buttons to permit their arms to correctly hold snuff-boxes or handkerchiefs. The legs had been gathered right into a band above or below the knee, closing with ties, buttons or a buckle or strap. A thick band of lace was often sewed onto the neckline of a gown with ribbons, flowers, and/or jewels adorning the lace. Her open sleeves are caught with jeweled clasps or pins over a shift with triple lace frills at the elbow. His shirt has lace ruffles. The shift (chemise) or smock had full sleeves early within the interval and tight, elbow-size sleeves within the 1740s because the sleeves of the gown narrowed. Sleeves had been bell- or trumpet-shaped, and caught up at the elbow to point out the frilled or lace-trimmed sleeves of the shift (chemise) beneath. Loose gowns, typically with a wrapped or surplice entrance closure, had been worn over the shift (chemise), petticoat and stays (corset) for at-dwelling put on, and it was fashionable to have one's portrait painted wearing these fashions. The stays of the early 18th century had been lengthy-waisting and lower with a slender again, extensive entrance, and shoulder straps; essentially the most fashionable stays pulled the shoulders back until the shoulder blades almost touched. A inflexible, upright posture with a sharp "break" at the bust is characteristic of the stiffly boned stays of the 1730s. These English ladies put on formal mantuas for tea. The resulting silhouette, with shoulders thrown back, very erect posture and a high, full bosom, is characteristic of this interval and no different. Because the decades progressed, fewer and fewer occasions referred to as for full costume, which had all however disappeared by the tip of the century.