Engageante

Engageantes, frz: " interfering channels " are long lace ruffles on the sleeves of women's clothing.

In the 17th century it was from the needle tip made ​​" lace sleeves " nor as a separate garment.

Since the late 17th century and until the onset of long-sleeved fashion of the 1770s engageantes were attached to the sleeves of the under dress, the chemise or the Chemisenkleids. They came in simple designs, such as batiste and in upper class and the aristocracy, of valuable fine tulle, pagoda- like over lined up partly in up to five layers. For washing, the only tacked peak was easily separated.