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    A bodice ( /ˈbɒdɪs/) is an article of clothing traditionally for women and girls, covering the torso from the neck to the waist. The term typically refers...
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    The liberty bodice (Australian and British English), like the emancipation bodice or North American emancipation waist, was an undergarment for women...
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    Romance novel (redirect from Bodice rippers)
    caused the novels to be referred to as bodice rippers. A Wall Street Journal article in 1980 referred to these bodice rippers as "publishing's answer to the...
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    was actually worn. In the early years of the new century, fashionable bodices had high necklines or extremely low, rounded necklines, and short wings...
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    History of bras (redirect from Bust bodice)
    containment as the Victorian styles. Early bras were either wrap-around bodices or boned, close-fitting camisoles (both worn over the corset). They were...
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  • The Ripped Bodice, established March 4, 2016, is a bookstore in Culver City, California in the United States, which sells only romance novels. It was the...
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    worn by women or girls consisting of a skirt with an attached bodice (or a matching bodice giving the effect of a one-piece garment). It consists of a top...
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    they may be worn over the thighs and abdomen. Bodice, covers the body from the neck to the waist. Bodices are often low cut in the front and high in the...
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    waist or just Empire is a style in clothing in which the dress has a fitted bodice ending just below the bust, giving a high-waisted appearance, and a gathered...
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    decorated triangular panel that fills in the front opening of a woman's gown or bodice. The stomacher may be boned, as part of a stays, or may cover the triangular...
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    reported that Middleton's parents paid for the bridal gown. The ivory satin bodice was padded slightly at the hips and narrowed at the waist, and was inspired...
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    exposure. Over the corset, was the tight-fitting bodice featuring a low waistline. Along with the bodice was a long skirt, featuring layers of horsehair...
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    wardrobe records identifies French, Italian, Dutch, and Polish styles for bodices and sleeves, as well as Spanish. Linen ruffs grew from a narrow frill at...
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    (called "nude") colours, is sometimes called illusion, as in 'illusion bodice' (or sleeve) due to giving the impression of exposed flesh, or a revealing...
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    women's clothing. The term, of French origin, originally referred to types of bodice or jacket with long tails, and in later usage a long corset, characterized...
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  • Banana Bag & Bodice is a Hudson Valley-based ensemble theatre company that creates original plays with a strong emphasis on text, music and design. They...
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    jackets of various kinds, including overshirts (worn under a doublet or bodice), women's négligées, and sleeved jackets worn by men. In modern usage, a...
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    jackets of various kinds, including overshirts (worn under a doublet or bodice), women's négligées, and sleeved jackets worn by men. In modern usage, a...
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    Tyrol). A dirndl consists of a close-fitting bodice with a low neckline, a blouse worn under the bodice, a wide high-waisted skirt and an apron. The dirndl...
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    & Bodice, for whom he has been the composer since 2002. In 2008 he composed music for Beowulf – A Thousand Years of Baggage, a Banana Bag & Bodice SongPlay...
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    a large, square kerchief worn by women to fill in the low neckline of a bodice. It originated in the United Kingdom in the 18th century and remained popular...
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    mantua or manteau was a new fashion that arose in the 1680s. Instead of a bodice and skirt cut separately, the mantua hung from the shoulders to the floor...
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  • Edwardian period, the word waist was a term common in the United States for the bodice of a dress or for a blouse or woman's shirt. A shirtwaist was originally...
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    a belt. It was generally worn with a bodice. It appeared in the United Kingdom. Peplum bodice—An evening bodice with long panniers. The overskirt covered...
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    century. Later,[when?] kirtles could be constructed by combining a fitted bodice with a skirt gathered or pleated into the waist seam. Kirtles could lace...
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  • dress is a garment consisting of a skirt with an attached bodice or with a matching bodice giving the effect of a one-piece garment. Dress may also refer...
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    Florence or a zupa, zipa, or socha in northern Italy. It consisted of a fitted bodice and full skirt worn over a chemise (called a camicia). It was usually unlined...
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    Justacorps Paenula Peplos Stola Toga Tunic Xout lao Tops Basque Bedgown Bodice Doublet Peascod belly Poet shirt Sbai Suea pat Trousers Braccae Breeches...
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    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...
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    least medieval times, when they were carried or worn around the head or bodice. Doilies are traditionally used to bind the stems in these arrangements...
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