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The following paintings show gentlemen in undress, wearing silk gowns, so-called banyans. It appears that those were made by seamstresses and not by tailors, because they did not require shaping or fitting. Apparently women were wearing similar garments like those here and the later mantua probably developed out of those loose gowns. They are all simple t-shaped garments with V-shaped panels as gores for greater width at the side seams. Where any kind of shaping is involved, on female gowns, there is one example surviving on a doll from about 30 years later, the early 1690s, and that one shows darts put in, running down from the shoulders to diminish the width of the shoulders. The sleeves are simply straight rectangular panels.

1664 Sir William Bruce Wright in a striped silk gown.	1669 Vermeer painted the geographer in a lined silk gown.
The painter Peter Lely and Hugh May.	Samuel Pepys in a brown silk Indian gown which he borrowed for the painting.