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The front-lacing bodice remained fashionable in Italy and the German States. Catherine de' Medici in a gown with a high-arched bodice fur-lined "trumpet" sleeves, over a pink forepart and matching paned undersleeves, c. 1555. An unknown woman wears a dark gown trimmed or lined in fur over fitted undersleeves. A chain is knotted at her neck.
Line art drawing of a bodice. A bodice (/ ˈ b ɒ d ɪ s /) is an article of clothing traditionally for women and girls, covering the torso from the neck to the waist.The term typically refers to a specific type of upper garment common in Europe during the 16th to the 18th century, or to the upper portion of a modern dress to distinguish it from the skirt and sleeves.
A limited edition of 300 complete motorcycles, the Steve McQueen Métisse Desert Racer, is a replica of the motorcycle raced by actor Steve McQueen in 1966 and 1967. [6] [7] The Desert Racer uses a fully reconditioned original Meriden Triumph unit construction 650 cc 6T engine.
With England and France mired in the Hundred Years War and its aftermath and then the English Wars of the Roses through most of the 15th century, European fashion north of the Alps was dominated by the glittering court of the Duchy of Burgundy, especially under the fashion-conscious power-broker Philip the Good (ruled 1419–1469).
The Spanish verdugado, from which "farthingale" derives, was a hoop skirt originally stiffened with esparto grass; later designs in the temperate climate zone were stiffened with osiers (willow withies), rope, or (from about 1580) whalebone.
Freda Cox wearing a liberty bodice in an early advertising photograph for Symington, published between 1908 and 1910. The liberty bodice (Australian and British English), like the emancipation bodice or North American emancipation waist, was an undergarment for women and girls invented towards the end of the 19th century, as an alternative to a corset.
Front Claps for corsets. A busk (also spelled busque) is a rigid element of a corset at the centre front of the garment. [1] Two types exist, one- and two-part busks. [2]Single-piece busks were used in "stays" and bodices from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries and were intended to keep the front of the corset or bodice straight and upright.
Pierre Garcet in his Calthorpe at the 1912 French Grand Prix in Dieppe. In 1904, the first motor car, a 10 hp four-cylinder model, was announced. [5] Some, or all, of the engines for these early cars were made by Johnson, Hurley and Martin Ltd at their Alpha Works in Coventry until about 1909 (there was a dispute in 1913 over ownership of the engine block casting patterns). [6]