Go brown peaks

Ir de picos pardos is an expression equivalent to going on a party or partying.

This expression has been used for centuries:

In the Renaissance the term began to be used because women wore a skirt that was a square-shaped canvas, with an opening in the center. This opening was fitted at the waist and the resulting skirt had four corners. Don Quixote talks about the Countess Trifaldi , and Cervantes explains that she wears a skirt with three peaks instead of four.

The Dictionary of the Spanish language of the Royal Spanish Academy, in its 3rd edition of 1791, said that «"Andarse, or irse, de picos pardos" It is a phrase with which it is given to understand that someone, being able to apply himself to useful and profitable things, gives himself up to useless and insubstantial ones, for not working and for walking to the briba ».

Montoto, in Un paquete de cartas, writes: «The beaks or the cloaks with brown beaks were, according to what I read, I don't remember in which author, distinctive of women with an angry life, party girls, etc. In times past, such women had to dress as ordered. According to the Ordinances of the Public House of Seville, they were not to wear tall dresses, or umbrellas, or gloves, but rather a short, red mantilla for the shoulders.

Charles III imposed on prostitutes the obligation to distinguish themselves by brown skirts cut into peaks at the bottom, although it is also said that "Ir de picos pardos" it has to do with the light customs of the Golden Age students and their companions. To identify their status as prostitutes, they wore a brown headband on the edge of their skirts.

Already in the 20th century, the phrase began to be used by both sexes, as going on a party with people of the other sex.

Currently, the expression "Ir de Picos Pardos" to refer to going around, partying and having a good time. A way to adapt this ancient expression to the current language in a modern way.