... the tale of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the lady of the castle tempts Sir Gawain with a magical, green girdle and explains to him that the wearer of this corset "could not be killed by any craft on earth.(1854)" Sir Gawain, amidst an ethical dilemma, accepts the gift and chooses to conceal it from Lord Bercilak. This passage contains ... into accepting it. Her argument was just the final point that Gawain needed to have the courage to leave his principles and take the girdle. When Sir Gawain accepts the corset, he fails this test of faith, for he "Sweetly did he swathe him in that ...

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... birth of Haute Couture. From her first millinery shop, opened in 1912, to the 1920s, Coco Chanel rose to become one of the premier fashion designers in Paris. Replacing the corset with comfort and casual elegance, her fashion themes included simple suits and dresses, women's trousers, costume jewellery, perfume and textiles. Her relaxed fashions, short skirts, and casual look were in ... sharp contrast to the corset fashions popular in the previous decades. Chanel herself dressed in mannish clothes, and adapted these more comfortable fashions which other women also found liberating. She...

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... , held features of which that lowered its possible level of friction drag in water, due to its high quality fabric. It also was shaped in such a streamline fashion, it had a corset-like support known as a Hydro Form Compression System (Nasa Spinoff, 2008). Generally speaking, swimsuits different from the LZR Racer all act very much similar, just not as well ... ...

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... did not make any profit from the arrangement. George W. Tubbs and the the New Jersey Wood Paving Co. did, therefore their liability was not reduced. Egbert v. Lippmann- Samuel Barnes created a corset steel, which held corsets together by springs. He gave his girlfriend Frances a pair in 1855. Giving her another pair in 1858, showing their friend Joseph Sturgis in 1863. In 1866 ... ...

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... of curvy silhouettes, big sleeves, ruffles, and trains. He then went on to introduce the cinched in wasp waist in his last Paris collection in 1940. He reintroduced the Victorian corset, which created the wasp waist and defined the bosom. Bocher relocated his business to New York on 57th street right next to Tiffany's where he established "Mainbocher Inc." ... ...

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... masculine image by making hair secondary to a woman's beauty. Corsets, which women had been wearing for centuries, suddenly lost their market. Available fashion was simply not designed to encompass the corset. Instead, women began to wear braziers. The idea of wearing less obtrusive undergarments influenced women to show more leg by wearing shorter dresses and skirts. Women of the 1920s became ... ...

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Whaling is a business, an economic endeavor. Profits are sought from the products produced. A whale's cadaver was processed for lamp oil, candles, medicines, perfume, machinery lubricant, and corset staves. The first type of whaling done was shore whaling. Along the New England coast, Native Americans sent their boats out and speared one of the passing behemoths. This practice ... ...

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... Heorot where he awards Beowulf with gold, a banner embroidered, a byrny and a helm. When having a feast in the honor of Beowulf, Wealhtheow proclaims a speech to Beowulf: "Take, dear Beowulf, collar and corset. Wear these treasures with right good will! Thrive and prosper and prove your might. You have earned the underlying honor of heroes. May fate show favor while life shall last ... ...

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... forties had finally made the transition to two separate pieces, the bra and the girdle. The term "bra" was now widely used to identify the upper portion of the outdated corset (something like usually close-fitting). Leather platform shoes were the rage. Their soles were often studded with "nail heads", another sign of opulence and luxury after the severe metal rationing ... ...

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... 's nice to see some cleavage. In most movies that I watch, it's always nice to see some cleavage. An example would be Pirates of the Caribbean when Kiera Knightly has on a corset that pushes up her breasts to show some cleavage. Even music videos show off cleavage from Pink's new video to Jewel's Intuition Video. I think that women also have are obsessed ... ...

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... hemline rose. The overall fashion theme for women changed. "Flappers" wore thin dresses with short sleeves that showed their ankles, and eveningwear might even be sleeveless. They also disregarded their corset. Before the war women's clothing was heavy and awkward but by 1928 they were focused on light and comfortable clothing. In 1913 the average woman used nineteen yards of fabric ... ...

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... such grandeur and scale was revolutionary. Costume historians have pointed out that the sitter's cross-legged pose was considered masculine in the mid-eighteenth century; moreover, the structure of her corset would have made crossing her legs uncomfortable. The colors are soft and inviting in this particular piece, as was the case of all 18th and 19th century paintings. Her gown ... ...

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... masculine image by making hair secondary to a woman's beauty. Corsets, which women had been wearing for centuries, suddenly lost their market. Available fashion was simply not designed to encompass the corset. Instead, women began to wear braziers. The idea of wearing less obtrusive undergarments influenced women to show more leg by wearing shorter dresses and skirts. Women of the 1920s became ... ...

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... be taken for the following week as well as steroids or an anti-inflammatory. Following the surgery, patients are wrapped with an ace bandage from the armpits to the navel. A corset-like bra is then stretched over the bandage and Velcroed shut. The estimated time for recovery, depends on the incision and the competency of the surgeon. Most people with incisions ... ...

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... her breast. While Mona Lisa is clothed in a sombre manner La Donna Velata's attire is luxuriously detailed, her silk sleeves of her dress contrast with her ivory skin, gold embroidered corset show her fortune. Along with her sombre attire, Mona Lisa is not laden in jewellery, instead wearing no jewellery opposed to La Donna Velata, who wears a necklace, and the pearl ... ...

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... suit the new fashions, ladies undergarments had to be modified. Although corsets were no longer worn, boned corsets were still a commodity. The camisole or chemise was worn in place of a corset. Camisoles worn with bloomers kept a woman covered underneath her outer garments. Bandeaus gained popularity later in the decade. Cotton and wool were popular fabrics of the decade. Silk was desired ... ...

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... able sex. Despite the great amounts of discomfort and pain, women were forced into attempting to change their bodies through corsetry and foot binding to achieve a better, more beautiful look. A corset is a tightly laced, rigidly constructed undergarment that exaggerated the female body. Foot binding is an attempt to stop growth of the feet by binding them tightly with a long bandage.?THESIS ... ...

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