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Floor-length A-line silhouette with graceful drape

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Pepys, while strolling in the park, saw the king and queen riding by, and upon his return home made the following entry relative to the riding costume worn by the queen: a white laced waistcoat and crimson short pettycoat in this dress, with her hat cocked and a red plume. In a news letter of the year 1682 the ladies of the English court are described as taking the air on horseback attired very rich in closebodied coats, hats and feathers with short perukes. Planch also refers to an English riding-dress that was advertised for sale in 1711, the costume consisting of coat, waistcoat, petticoat, hat and feather all well laced with silver. Many advertisements appeared in the London newspapers of the eighteenth century, advertising lost or stolen garments, and among the many descriptions, the following, published in 1712, describes a ladys riding costume: A coat and waistcoat of blue camlet trimmed and embroidered with silver, with a petticoat of the same stuff, by which alone her sex was recognized, as she wore a smartly cocked hat, edged with silver and rendered more sprightly by a feather, while her hair, curled and powdered, hung to a considerable length down her shoulders, tied like that of a rakish young gentleman, with a long streaming scarlet band. One of the earliest references made to the riding habit appears in 1727, which reads: riding habits with hats and feathers and periwigs. During the eighteenth century, riding-habits were called by various names, the Brunswick, introduced in England about 1750, being the one most generally met with