Getting ready for the big Carnival Parade

Carnival in the city of Aalst in Belgium is part of the Unesco Immaterial Worldheritage. It consists of a big Parade on Sunday and Monday with around 70 big groups and about 180 small groups making fun of political and social issues. On Tuesday there's the parade of the "Voil Jeanetten" these are boys and men dressed as woman with some specific attributes like a birdcage, a herring, plastic breasts, old furcoats and a table lamp shade as a hat. This has nothing to do with travestites, but it's originated in history when we people where poor and used the clothes from their mothers and sisters and attributes in and around the house to dress up in a funny way.