Quote Originally Posted by figheadair View Post

Interestingly, whilst it has been claimed that dress setts are based on womens arisaid patterns no such garment survivies so far as I'm aware howver there are a number of domestic blanket patterns still extant and this may have been the source of the story/tradition.
The Christina Young arisaid c. 1726, is the prime example, and has already been mentioned in this thread.