Her bust, tightly encased in the bodice, her stiff farthingale and all her fashionable magnificence are rendered true to life by Velázquez, and at the same time he reveals them as a theatrical show concealing the girl's natural physical nature beneath the armour of courtly constraint.

These consist of a white blouse ; an orange or pink miniskirted jumper-style dress, with the " waistline " cut beneath the breasts, in the manner of a bodice ; a matching apron ; and a heart-shaped name tag.

Mrs. Eustis Reily's olive-green street length silk taffeta dress was embroidered on the bodice with gold threads and golden sequins and beads.

It was a simple bodice with tabs at the waist, stiffened by horn, buckram, and whalebone.

Very light and loose dresses, usually white and often with shockingly bare arms, rose sheer from the ankle to just below the bodice, where there was a strongly emphasized thin hem or tie round the body, often in a different colour.

( Perhaps unknown to the critic, the bodice was constructed over a metal and whalebone foundation and could not have possibly fallen ; the shoulder straps were ornamental ).

The Cottee was a tight elongated bodice that was worn under clothing.

It was made up of stiff linen and worn under bodice, as fashion evolved, so did the Cottee ; it became tighter and stiffer to better serve the fashion of the time.

They also began using an additive to the corset called the Busk, which was an artificial edge that was given to the bodice.

The busk was typically made out of wood, horn, ivory, metal or whale bone, it was then carved and shaped into a thin paper knife shape and inserted into the Elizabethan bodice and was faceted and held into place by lace.

The emphasis of the stays was less on the smallness of the waist than on the contrast between the rigid flatness of the bodice front and the curving tops of the breasts peeking over the top of the corset.

The shirtwaist, a costume with a bodice or waist tailored like a man's shirt with a high collar, was adopted for informal daywear and became the uniform of working women.

This fashion was short-lived ( though the bustle would return again in the mid-1880s ), and was succeeded by a tight-fitting silhouette with fullness as low as the knees: the cuirass bodice, a form-fitting, long-waisted, boned bodice that reached below the hips, and the princess sheath dress.

The fashionable corset now had gores to individually cup the breasts, and the bodice was styled to emphasize this shape.

The emancipation bodice was a tight sleeveless vest, buttoning up the front, with rows of buttons along the bottom to which could be attached petticoats and skirt.

The corselet was originally a piece of armor, covering the torso ; the origin of the English word comes from cors, an Old French word meaning " bodice ".

In historical usage, particularly in Victorian and early 20th century fashion, a bodice ( in earlier sources, body ) indicates the upper part of a dress that was constructed in two parts ( i. e., with separate skirt and bodice, such as a ballet tutu ), but of matching or coordinating fabric with the intention of wearing the two parts as a unit.

This construction was standard for fashionable garments from the 18th century until the late 19th century, and had the advantages of allowing a voluminous skirt to be paired with a close-fitting bodice, and of allowing two or more bodices to be worn with the same skirt ( e. g., a high-necked bodice and a low-necked bodice allowed the same skirt to serve for both daywear and evening wear ).

" The carnation duly proved to be in the Duchess's bodice, from which Maximilian carefully removed it.

The term for female bodice, the choli is derived from another ruling clan from south, the Cholas.

* Bodice: The tutu bodice can use from 6 to 15 panels of fabric.

* Classical Tutu ( pancake ): A very short, stiff skirt made with layers of netting that extends straight outwards ( from the hips ) in a flat pancake shape, and has a fitted bodice.

It is made with layers of netting and has a fitted bodice ; it extends outwards from the hips and does not use a wired hoop.

A bodice, historically, is an article of clothing for women, covering the body from the neck to the waist.

In modern usage, bodice typically refers to an upper garment that has removable sleeves or no sleeves, often low-cut, worn in Europe from the 16th century to the 18th century, either over a corset or in lieu of one.

The bodice was different from the corset of the time because it was intended to be worn over the other garments.

A gown is a loose outer garment by men and women from the early Middle Ages to the seventeenth century, or any woman's garment consisting of a bodice and attached skirt.

The pinafore differs from a smock in that it does not have sleeves and there is no back to the bodice.

Very light and loose dresses, usually white and often with shockingly bare arms, rose sheer from the ankle to just below the bodice, where there was a strongly emphasized thin hem or tie round the body, often in a different color.

She also performed the song at the American Music Awards in a medley with the third single from Christina Aguilera " I Turn to You ", wearing a " tummy-baring bodice " she removed the skirt before performing " What a Girl Wants " in the medley-style performance.

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Betty Boop wore short dresses, high heels, a garter, and her breasts were highlighted with a low, contoured bodice that showed cleavage.

The light models the volumetric geometry of her form, defining the conic nature of a small torso bound rigidly into a corset and stiffened bodice, and the panniered skirt extending around her like an oval candy-box, casting its own deep shadow which, by its sharp contrast with the bright brocade, both emphasises and locates the small figure as the main point of attention.

She pulled one of her breasts out of her bodice and struck it with the sword, frightening the natives, who fled.

The first float featured the iconic image of Minoan civilization: that of the fertility goddess clad in a bodice exposing her breasts and clutching serpents in both hands.

It shows her full length, wearing a black dress with silver braid, and of course adorned with much valuable jewellery: gold necklaces and bracelets, and a large gold brooch on her close-fitting bodice.

" She wore " a dress made of silk and chiffon with a bib-like bodice stitched with white beads and topped with a velvet bow just below her neck.

At a ball in Brussels ( based on the Duchess of Richmond's famous ball on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo ), George gives Becky a note which she hides in her bodice.

At her wedding, Bianca wore a bodice " with eighty pieces of the jeweler's art pinned thereon, with each piece consisting of one ruby and four pearls ".

Almachildes embraces her and secretly slips the charm into the bodice of her dress.

alt = Anne, dressed in a dark gold bodice, and her unbreeched son embrace against a Baroque garden background.

alt = A young blue-eyed girl wears a blue rococo bodice with frilled sleeves while holding a portrait of her father.

Against the darkness, Lady Jane, with her pallid flesh, her white bodice and satin petticoat, makes a splash of light.

Elizabeth wears a crimson gown ( barely visible on either side of her waist ) with a white lining that matches the petticoat, bodice, and sleeves over a wheel or French farthingale.

" Upon her bodice, she wears a transparent veil: a wisp of gossamer that was not spun by human distaff.

She sees him again when he breaks into her false father's home to steal plans and confronts him in the stable, wearing an angelic white bodice and armed with a sword, demanding he return what he has stolen.

But Zorro manages to retrieve Eléna's own sword and cuts off her bodice, leaving her topless and in nothing but her underwear.