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Italian fashion uniquely featured a broad U-shape rather than a V. [14] Spanish women also wore boned, heavy corsets known as "Spanish bodies" that compressed the torso into a smaller but equally geometric cone. [23] Bodices could be high-necked or have a broad, low, square neckline, often with a slight arch at the front early in the period.
The great farthingale appears to have been worn at an angle ("low before and high behind") which visually elongated the wearer's torso while shortening her legs. The angle was likely created by the use of bodies (corsets) or boned bodices with long centre fronts that pushed down on the farthingale, tilting it.
Throughout Europe and Asia Minor, during the entire Renaissance period and even for some time beyond, the sumptuous Italian gold-brocaded red velvets with the pomegranate motif, the zetani vel lutati al lucciolati recorded in contemporary documents, were an indication of high social status: luxury, power and sacredness.
As Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour comes to a close, CNN Style looks back at some of her best haute couture performance looks.
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Another set of Minoan figurines from 1500 BC show women in bare-bosomed corsets. [7] [8] ... In many European societies between the Renaissance and the 19th century ...