(May 18, 2021 – 10:15 PM)Ursula Black Wrote:  The book also mentions the removable easily washed dress protectors which you stuck in your pits to save your dress and apparently those are a thing you can still buy from haberdasheries. Also scented dusting powders for your sweaty parts which is not so revolutionary to me because I sell powdered deodorant on the daily. LYCOPODIUM POWDER IS INSANE.

Not related to appearance sections at all, I'll probs have more thoughts on this tomorrow but —

OMG I've worn one of these before for theater. Obvi not something from the era, but I read "protectors which you stuck in your pits" and that literally just flashed me back to trying on the coat and seeing the little pads.

Though now that I think of it, this might just be regular practice in theater so you don't sweat thru your costume and the costume dept doesn't have to wash them every night after you sweat through it xD