wire frame called a commode, the fontange featured much decoration, formed of linen and lace, including the key feature being lappets. The fontange, with its lappets, was popularised in the French Court around the 1690s.

Into the 18th and 19th centuries, the fashion for lappets worn in the west as a women's fashionable decorative accessory (for indoor wear) expanded. Through this period, lappets were bright white or black in colour, and made of either simple or highly decorative hand or machine-made lace,