Pretty Polonaise - Help?

[leiac]

A friend just gave me a polonaise that she had started a few years ago for her sister, who no longer wants it. So pretty! Cream & tan striped cotton, scattered with pink flowers (cabbage roses and not quite period gerber daisies). It's taken from the c. 1770-1785 Snowshill Manor pattern in Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion 1, the polonaise with

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[verdaera]

Hey, I just got that book yesterday and I've been researching that period :D

[leiac]

You are a wealth of information. :) And I should have thought to check out marquise.de earlier; I tend to use just the late 1800s/early 1900s sections and forget about the rest.