This mysterious Made by Us look is a brand-new take on the infamous plague doctor. Matching black gloves fit past the elbows while the look is topped off with the faux leather mask with red-tinted eyes. A wet-look capelet is attached, layered over a graceful black cape. The lovely bodysuit is fitted with a lace-up deep v-neck collar line. To create this macabre look, our in-house designers took the ominous fashions of the plague doctors in the 1400s and updated them. Never mind that their ankles were getting bitten by the culprits, the nefarious flee. Because all they had to protect themselves was their statement mask, a beak full of pungent herbs to keep them from inhaling the "miasma" or the bad air that they believed caused the disease. And often, they'd be next in line to come down with the disease. The first to witness the horrible symptoms. They'd be the first on the scene during a new outbreak. You see, though the plague doctor might have been educated and well dressed, they had to get up close and personal with, well, the plague. But the plague doctor is on the upper crust of professions that make us glad we work office jobs. If you've followed the history of plumbing at all, you can probably name one or two professions that you would never want. We won't get into the details but history's professions get pretty grim pretty quickly. There have been a lot of tough jobs throughout history. Cipolla.Hey, Where'd you put that hand sanitizer? Extracto del libro La Ciudad Medieval (1977)
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