Nah, it's a "mantua", notice the seam lines all the way down the front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diegogarcity, Fake Bolero Edition - A Dress A Day] Reference

Venetian "mantua," -- a sort of cloak which was just then returning into fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brotherhood of Consolation] Reference

For are not milliners and mantua-makers reckoned the next class?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference

She recommended that Mrs. Webbe, her former mantua-maker opposite Pall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Framing Romantic Dress: Mary Robinson, Princess Caroline and the Sex/Text] Reference

But you mentally thank your mantua-maker for inserting undersleeves; they are quite consoling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851] Reference

They were large green eyes, he saw as he drew closer, made more green by the color of her mantua.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartless]

I make and mend what is necessary for the family, for I must be tailor, mantua-maker, and milliner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham.] Reference

"The mantua-maker tells me the latest fashions are here from London sooner than they are in Edinburgh.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference

A couple of years ago I read the line "Jo was the family mantua maker" and I almost fell off the couch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Say, can you see? (Betcha can't.) - A Dress A Day] Reference

I directed my mantua-maker to let my dress be elegant, but plain as I could possibly appear with decency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference

The mantua opened at the front to reveal a petticoat of paler green, huge and swaying over her new hoops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartless]

His dress was rigidly plain, and his wife was not indulged in the vanities of millinery and mantua-making.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference

Anna was dressed in a deep pink open mantua over wide hoops, with silver embroidered robings and stomacher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heartless]

And so we shall have in two or three days, from several places, nothing but mantua-makers and tailors at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

'I was apprenticed to a mantua-maker and milliner for six months, miss, and after that I worked for the neighbours.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gladys, the Reaper] Reference

She might not be some fancy imported mantua maker, but I'd put her handiwork and taste up against the best Bond Street seamstress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hero Come Back]

My health however, obliged me to leave them and establish myself as a mantua-maker, in one room, with no companion but a goldfinch.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference

I have been employed all this morning in executing some female commissions, which, of course, led me to milliners, mantua-makers, &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference

Accordingly, she sent her own milliner -- mantua-maker -- what you will, -- to array her in the complete toilette of a lady of fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference

The first was a large woman, dressed in an old-fashioned mantua robe of grey satin, a fur tippet, and with a lace cap tied under her chin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Blackstone Key] Reference

He was standing before the door of a mantua-maker.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

"What, have you a mantua-maker all to yourselves?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow] Reference

"Do you talk of poetry, my lord, to a mantua-maker?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference

Is the Watteau Gown, Sack back gown and mantua the same?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

Which now is the higher art, the sculptor's or the mantua-maker's?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gala-days] Reference

The mantua-maker and the tailor arrive in the same boat with the carpenter and mason.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Boone The Pioneer of Kentucky] Reference

"Mademoiselle Melanie, the mantua-maker," answered Madeleine with an unfaltering voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference

She had no desire to be found in the boudoir of the mantua-maker by any of Madeleine's friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference

Her dresses had all been made by the mantua-maker, and her fine sewing by the family sempstress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lights and Shadows of Real Life] Reference

What was this young man, of his lordship's own rank, doing here, in the boudoir of the mantua-maker?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference

"I have not had that pleasure; she is a mantua-maker, I presume," returned Maurice, repressing a smile.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference

He would have wildly darted into the shop, but just then the figure of the mantua-maker appeared in the doorway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

"I shall bear your remarks in mind; though the accounts we have heard of the fair mantua-maker differ materially.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference

In the waiting-room I found no less than three mantua-makers waiting for an interview with the wife of the new President.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House] Reference

With a plausible excuse and seeming indifference, he gracefully opened conversation with the mantua-maker as only a Parisian can.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference