First bustle era? polonaise? let's make a 1872 dress!

In this video I go through how fashion evolved into the first bustle era, what the eras silhuette was and what is a polonaise gown. I go through it's 18th century roots and how it differed from most other fashionable gown both in the 18th century and in the 1870s. Then I make the dress and go through my constructing process. This dress is largely machine sewn with only minimal hand finishing, which is plausible for the era. Unfortunately i don't have much resourses to share as far as the patterns go as this is self drafted based on what I was seeing in fashion plates and line drawings of pattern pieces in fashion magazines from the era. This pinterest board has some of those that i used as inspiration for mine: https://www.pinterest.cl/sew_through_time/1870s80s/patterns/ Most of the fashion plates and extant pieces I show you are from the Met.