Thanks for responses, and new questions to my earlier post.
Some replies are below.
Forgive the length. The coat was cut under the bust, quite distinctly, and the illustration showed the woman nursing a baby in a rather handy fashion. It also had a full underskirt with pants beneath. I recreated it in black with a blue sleeveless coat. I'm still kicking myself for not writing the source down, but I had been playing all of 8-months at the time, and it was my second outfit made to autocrat a Middle Eastern Feast.