Nora Waugh`s Pattern & Illustration

This is the dress I have chosen from Nora Waugh`s The Cut of Women`s Clothes 1600-1930 (1968 Faber and Faber) It resembles the dress I saw at the study trip to Hampshire Museum Center best. A very similar dress can be seen in Janet Arnold`s Patterns of Fashion 2. (1964 Macmillans Publishers ldt) This particular dress is also described in Costume in Detail 1730 - 1930  p. 237-239 by Nancy Bradfield (Eric Dobby Publishers) I intend to use these two descriptions as reference when working with The Afternoon Dress 1878.