In my neverending quest to procrastinate and not do my job I have been looking up images "not by a Cranach" that look like the gowns typically seen in portraits painted by both Lucas Cranach the Elder and Lucas Cranach the Younger. NB.  This isn't only for the open fronted style.

Barthel Beham - Susanna of Bavaria, Wife of Ottoheinrich, 1533
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