#are any of my mutuals or followers from 1820s france?

[clove-pinks]

I was going to make a crack about needing to bring your spurs and teeny tiny cane to the opera, but I'm terribly distracted by the description of his "redingotte croisante" [sic].

An expanding redingote? A growing redingote?? Could this be a reference to padding the coat, which was common at the time? Going by the 1828 novel Pelham, I didn't think that men wanted to admit to being well-padded, even if their fashionable silhouettes said otherwise.

#1820s #romantic era #1827 #fashion history #historical men's fashion #men's fashion #fashion #redingote #fashion plate #are any of my mutuals or followers from 1820s france? #maybe you can check this out in the boulevard des italiens #it also says he has floating lapels which appears to be true