As historian Clare Haru Crowston points out in Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 , the mantua transform[ed] existing patterns of clothing consumption and seamstresses used this new type of dress that required minimal cutting and shaping to establish a niche in the high-end of the garment trades and to spread the new taste to other social groups (Crowston 37, 40)
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