Bodice

One big feature of corsets is the strings that help to tighten the bodice and they can be tied in the back or the front of the corset. For those tied in the back, ladies may need a little assistance getting it tightened and tied. Lace corsets are very popular. There is a red and black lace corset available that also features…

French painter and sculptor Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, more commonly known as Edgar Degas (1834-1917) is considered to be one of the main founders of Impressionism and is widely known for his paintings of females and the overall life of Parisians. Degas is especially associated with the subject of dance, actually Degas has produced approximately 1,500 works on the subject (Schenkel 2004). The ballerinas Degas created remain as some of the most famous works of 19th-century art. Degas' talent…

During the 1980’s the impact of American and British culture was evident in many different aspects of life. Australia in the 1980s was a combination of many cultural flavours including influences from different cultures such as European, Asian and Indigenous Australian culture to In the 1980s, America and Britain still proved to be the main foreign cultural influence. The Australian culture was welcoming of the consumerist American way. Throughout fashion, sporting, cinema., music, it was easy…

industry. This change indeed had an impact in the jewelry market at that time. For instance, gold jewelry was used with darker cloths while the new pastel colors became backgrounds for gems and pearls. The popular jewelry of this age was the large bodice jewelry which were pinned to stiff dress…

What were some of the theatrical innovations of this era? Throughout the romantic ballet era (1830-1850) new theatrical innovations were introduced which revolutionised the theatre going experience for both dancer and the audience.Before the Romantic Era the theatres were lit by houselights which remained on throughout whole performances. When gas lighting was invented and brought into the theatres it became a major feature. During a performance, gas lighting took a more predominant role,…

Dress: noun; an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece. Think of a dress, any type of dress. Maybe it’s a lavender sundress, billowing in the summer breeze while she. Perhaps it’s an elegant black ball gown, draped from head to toe complimenting her hourglass figure. It might be a little red cocktail dress, short and sweet but ready for a night out on the town,. Dresses are clothing items made to look elegant and dazzling, to make others feel envious.…

I went to prom for bragging rights. I’ve been sewing since I was in elementary school, and ambitiously making my prom dress had been one of my greatest achievements to date. Two months earlier, I had been browsing the array of patterns at the fabric store and laid my eyes on a pattern for the perfect dress. The only problem? Most of the sewing patterns I normally use have a little sticker on the front that says in large, yellow letters: “easy!” This particular pattern did not say “easy!”…

Throughout the paper I will be examining women’s femininity during the Victorian Era from the 1830s to the 1900s. From the start of the Victorian era the perfect woman as an ideal of femininity was relentless. Women were expected to be prim and proper, as well as pure and hygienic. Women were slaves to fashion, yearning for men’s approval; they had to suffer from heavy crinoline cages on their hips to restricted corsets clinging to their rib cage. I will further my research of how femininity was…

I am of German-Irish decent, I chose to write about my German heritage. I am the fourth generation of German-American on my mother’s side and the fifth generation on my father’s side. I will report on the overview of Germany and its people, an artifacts that exist from my German culture, and a dress indicative of the culture. I will also include my own familial ties to the culture, and its traditions, cultural patterns that I identify with, as well as the influence the German heritage has on my…

ignored them, jeering at them on the street and spreading nasty rumors. One of the goodwives said, “They should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne’s forehead. But she, -the naughty baggage, -little will she care what they put upon the bodice of her gown” (Hawthorne 49). They taught their children to follow them around and scold them. Pearl, feeling protective of her mother, would take a stand against these children. “Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath,…