This is a serious problem, okay.

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Why did people in the 1800s wear so many clothes? I am just trying to write porn, and it keeps turning into paragraphs and paragraphs of people taking off jackets and waistcoats and cravats and none of this is interesting to write or- I imagine- to read, and it's taking forever and why can't everyone just be naked instantly. Argh.

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XD They can! Which has led to me googling lots of paintings of the 1830s in an attempt to figure out if it makes any sense for someone to wear a cravat without all those other layers. (Conclusion: I have no idea.)

But in the other story, which I'm trying to write first, they start out walking around outdoors and thus have to be dressed, siiiigh. At least Ben often goes around in just a shirt and jacket without the in-between layers. Good for you, Ben.

Well, she has to have a wide circle of connections (like, outside of New Orleans) who knew her in regards to her first school or her translations, and who probably are just used to calling her Madame Vitrac and are not keeping up with the details of her personal life. So it totally could be called that!