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"A white quilted satin jacket with a hood and matching petticoat... This suit would have probably have been worn for travelling."
A lady of quality wouldn't have been trudging through the muck, and in winter, there is snow covering the ground.
Since it's heavily lined, it would have been worn most likely in the snow, which is not always laden with mud. Please stop with your assumptions.
While I'm sure it's a recreation of a historical garment and that the original author claimed it was a traveling suit, I'm having serious doubts about that last bit, not to cast any aspersions on her. Even the best of people can be wrong sometimes.
Unfortunately, in those times, a lady of quality would have been 'trudging through the muck'. (The snow wouldn't help, either, btw: snow + any amount of carriage/horse/person traffic quickly turns to muddy slush, all the worse for a white dress. Sorry.) Muck was everywhere in those days - she would have been getting in and out of her preferred means of travel, which would have meant her train catching on doorframes and ripping, the white fabric being splattered with manure and mud from other passing vehicles (the streets were rarely cleaned and open sewers often ran down the middle of them)and stains from extensive sweating (no air conditioning or anti-perspirant), food and the badly-dyed seat she would have no doubt been sitting on. There weren't many public restrooms in those days, so she would likely have gone out into the bushes of wherever they were passing, or used a bourdaloue in the carriage. Things often had to be spot-cleaned in those days and few methods of conveyance had proper wheel-shocks to speak of.
So while it's a gorgeous dress and you should be very proud of it, when you combine the filth and sweat of a long trip, the jolts and long hours, the heat and inconvenience of trying to get a long train in and out of a coach without it ripping or being shut in the door, I think you'll agree that any (sensible) lady, even of means, would choose something a little wiser for traveling in.
It is a lovely ensemble, though, and I don't mean to cause offense by pointing this out.
Also, I couldn't help but notice that you mention concealing a blunderbuss in a muff. Since the typical blunderbuss had between a sixteen and twenty-four inch long barrel and was constructed of heavy steel or brass, this would not be practical. They are fascinating weapons, though. Just thought I'd point that out.
Have an excellent day!
I was wondering, which pattern did you use exactly? I have two books form Janet Arnold as well...