1900 man "queue de pie" i don't know the word in english ...

[gaspodfreud]

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[Pynedor]

Cool one, gaspodfreud!

[Luis]

un monsieur vraiment victorien!
(a really victorian man!)

[playmofire]

He does, indeed, look a truly Victorian man, Luis.  A very neat and effective custom.

As for "queue de pie", it translates as "magpie tail" and I wonder if it if referring to his coat, what in English is called a "tail coat".  This rear view shows what it is:

http://www.naergilien.info/research/london1/VandA/Rococo/mens/Mensjackets/P4050832.JPG

a coat with a the back hanging down lower than the rest of the jacket.  It is a formal piece of clothing, for example, at weddings.

[cowabounga]

Spot on, Gordon! I would have said "tail suit", is that wrong?
@gasp: another Jack the Ripper?

[gaspodfreud]

thanks ! thanks playmofire for the vocabulary ! i remember now Arnaud ! tail suit must be also good .

For me it can look as a doctor as well .

For my jack the ripper , i prefer my custom with the black mantle (i call it dracula mantle ... ) and i don't find better in time . This one doesn't look bad !! maybe dr Jekill ...

Another from my daughter room :



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[Pynedor]

I would have said "tail suit", is that wrong?

I think it's a tailcoat. It's a funny sort of coat, but I find all suits sort of funny.

And the grey one is great too, gaspodfreud. Well done.

[playmofire]

"Tail suit" would be OK too when referring to the coat, waistcoat and trousers.

I thought he was a doctor, too.

[Luis]

thanks Gordon for the vocabulary

and I love that second one too, Jérémy

[gaspodfreud]

thanks playmofire ! playmobils will help me to practise my english !!  Luis thanks , feel free to use it in your wonderfull stories !!