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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.
While support for fashionable dress contested that corsets maintained an upright, ‘good figure’, as a necessary physical structure for moral and well-ordered society, dress reformists contested that women’s fashions were not only physically detrimental but “the results of male conspiracy to make women subservient by cultivating them in ...
The Nanny star and co-creator donned an elegant floor-length black dress with a heart-shaped bustier, completing the look with black open-toed heels and a matching shawl. Drescher, 67, tied ...
Anne of Denmark had her gowns altered in 1603 to suit English fashions, and employed Robert Hughes to make farthingales from 1603 to 1618. [28] Robert Naunton thought that Anne's farthingale might conceal a pregnancy in October 1605, writing, "The Queen is generally held to be pregnant, but no appearance eminent by reason of the short vardugals ...
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.
A long gown with a train has fur at the cuffs and neckline and is worn with a wide belt, c. 1460. An attendant in the same illustration wears a red hood with a long liripipe. Her blue dress is "kirtled" or shortened by poufing it over a belt, c. 1460. Woman wears a simple headdress of draped linen and a red houppelande trimmed with white fur ...