Boring update
Sep. 22nd, 2012 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotSo one of the fashion plates whose description I translated days ago and is I think the next after the next to be posted is fascinating me endlessly. Basically, you wear a petticoat with a bit of a polonaise stuck to the back, and throw a mantelet over your stays so it looks like you're fully dressed.
It's the eighteenth century version of putting your coat on over your bra to go out and get the paper.
(Also, it's taken me days but I think I've figured out that manchette is the period term for engageante, and now everything is clear.)
(I really need to get a job.)
ETA: Going to make one of these for DU2013, I think. It sounds about my speed! Also, given that it has no bodice, I'm dozens of times less likely to spend time and money making it and then never wear it again because it doesn't fit right. A reusable costume, imagine!
It's the eighteenth century version of putting your coat on over your bra to go out and get the paper.
(Also, it's taken me days but I think I've figured out that manchette is the period term for engageante, and now everything is clear.)
(I really need to get a job.)
ETA: Going to make one of these for DU2013, I think. It sounds about my speed! Also, given that it has no bodice, I'm dozens of times less likely to spend time and money making it and then never wear it again because it doesn't fit right. A reusable costume, imagine!
