First of all, the breeches are finished, have been tried on and tested, and they fit well (much improved, actually, by the set-in gores between leg and middle part) but were hard-ish to put on because the belt is too short to keep it together while pulling them up. That resulted in some fishing for the belt ends afterwards.
No pictures yet, as I want to do their first showing at the conference in the presentation, but I am very happy with the piece, and they do look quite similar to what can be seen on images.
Other stuff that is going on: Paying bills (sigh), doing some bureaucracy stuff (which will ensure some payment later, so yay) and, of course, the neverending ongoing work on... the translation of the thesis. There's been progress translation-wise, and I have now gotten to the start of the catalogue, and there I stumbled across a specific German term that I don't really know how to translate.
In German, there's the term "erheben" (like in uplifting, or in getting up if you do it yourself, but that is not the case here) used in the context of making a saint. Erhebung is when the body is exhumed with the intention of venerating it and placing the bones in some reliquiary, or in some other position where they can be venerated. (It includes the good old time-honoured Catholic practise of splitting off some tiny fragments and selling them off to other places so they can use it for stuff including naming a church and dedicating the main altar to the original owner of the splinter.) So if you are writing about some saintly guy or gal and the text says that their Erhebung was at this or that point in time, it's very clear what is meant.
This, it turns out, is one of the things that are hard to google. Erheben, after all, means a range of other things as well. German Wikipedia has an article on just this (yay!) but there is no version in any other language, especially not in English (grrr, plan thwarted). A quick use of the search engines revealed that the Duck (I say I would google it, but I use duckduckgo) is very willing to tell me everything about the cardiac thingy called ST elevation, which it will helpfully convert my "saint elevatio english" into, but not about English church-y terminology. So.
Does anyone here happen to know how that would translate, precisely, into English?