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We believe that pantalettes were normally one piece garments with pants/trouser like construction--hence the name pantalettes. We think this was the case for the shorter-length pantalettes before dress hem lines began to rise. And when the pantalettes were white rhey were almost always done in cotton or linnen. But not all pantlettes were white. Some in fact were done in the same material as the dress. Here we might see faux pantalettes. Here we have no photographic evidence. Photography did not appear until the 1840s. And even when photography did appear, girls were of course not photographed without their dresses. Now there may be paintings illustrated this, but if there are, there are mot very many and we have not found them. But there is one useful source--vintage clothing. There is not a lot of it for the early-19th century, but examples do exist in museum nd private collections.
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