page_title: Engageante
hierarchical_section_title: Engageante
caption_attribution_description: English: Eleanor wear a bergere hat and a brocaded silk dress with a sack back
context_page_description: Engageantes are false sleeves worn with women's clothing. They were worn during the 18th and 19th centuries, with a brief revival in the 20th century.
  In the 18th century, engageantes took the form of ruffles or flounces of linen, cotton, or lace, tacked to the elbow-length sleeves then fashionable.
  In the mid-19th century, the term engageante was used for separate false sleeves, usually with fullness gathered tight at the wrist, worn under the open bell-shaped "pagoda" sleeves of day dresses. The fashion reappeared briefly just after the turn of the 20th century.
context_section_description: Engageantes are false sleeves worn with women's clothing. They were worn during the 18th and 19th centuries, with a brief revival in the 20th century.
  In the 18th century, engageantes took the form of ruffles or flounces of linen, cotton, or lace, tacked to the elbow-length sleeves then fashionable.
  In the mid-19th century, the term engageante was used for separate false sleeves, usually with fullness gathered tight at the wrist, worn under the open bell-shaped "pagoda" sleeves of day dresses.  The fashion reappeared briefly just after the turn of the 20th century.
caption: Eleanor Frances Dixie by Henry Pickering, painted c.1753. Sack-back gown worn with embroidered lawn engageantes.
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