When Marie Antoinette became her own woman the style was becoming much easy going, perhaps to equalize the outrageousness of the hairstyle in favor, the towering pouf. Dresses in simple fabrics such as muslin and cotton toile did not depend on stays for shaping and they were generally jewel-necked and casually belted at the waist.
There continued throughout all of these changes in ladies fashion to be a standard court dress. The main components were a fitted bodice, sleeves and a very full, wide skirt. Throughout the decades there might be modifications to the trims on the dress, but it was a very distinctive style worn only on very important occasions of state.