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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

[A thin strip] of cartilage from the mouths of baleen whales that [was] used for stiffening stays, bodice, calash bonnets and petticoat hoops.  2, record 1, English, - whalebone

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... whalebone was an important fashion tool—however, it wasn’t made out of bone, but whale baleen. Dried baleen was flexible yet strong, and used to create structure in clothing, such as tight corsets, used by high-fashion women to present a curvy waistline ...  3, record 1, English, - whalebone

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Lame de corne flexible que l'on fabriquait à partir de fanons de baleine et qui entrait notamment dans la confection des corsets.  2, record 1, French, - baleine

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 3,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The basquine ... was made of stiff cloth and fitted tightly over the waist, then opened out like a funnel, hiding the breasts under an artificial front over which the dress fitted.  3, record 3, English, - basquine

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The corset effect is often enhanced by the basquine being prolonged over the hips where it flares out in a skirt of petal-like tabs.  4, record 3, English, - basquine

Record 3,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 3, Textual support number: 1 CONT

La basquine ou vasquine [...] était un corsage ou petit pourpoint sans manches, ayant la forme d'un entonnoir. Elle était fortement serrée sur le buste qu'elle avait pour objet d'amincir graduellement jusqu'à la taille.  3, record 3, French, - basquine

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Le deuxième grand élément nouveau du costume fut la basquine ou vasquine, corsage ou buste sans manches, piqué, rembourré, décolleté, lacé, très serré à la taille, parfois baleiné en attendant l'armature qu' il aura plus tard.  4, record 3, French, - basquine

Record 3,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 4,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Put dress together by choosing cut of bodice, neckline, sleeve & pockets. Decide if you would like it cut close to the body or flared at the base.  2, record 4, English, - cut%20close%20to%20the%20body

Record 4,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 4, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Très original, ce blouson en fourrure de lapin est coupé près du corps et affiche de fines insertions verticales de coton Liberty, prises dans la fourrure.  2, record 4, French, - coup%C3%A9%20pr%C3%A8s%20du%20corps

Record 4,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 5,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

The surcot ouvert seen on countless monuments till far into the 15th century; it was a T-shaped side-less low-necked bodice often jewel-studded down the front, with a wide skirt gathered in a band just below the natural waistline... The surcot ouvert was a dress for grand occasions, donned for balls and ceremonies as court...  1, record 5, English, - surcot%20ouvert

Record 5,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 5, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Le surcot ouvert: C'est un surcot au corsage fendu et largement échancré de l'emmanchure aux hanches, laissant voir la cotte ou le corset. Le devant forme une sorte de gilet, le plus souvent recouvert d'hermine (ainsi que le bord des emmanchures). Une rangée d'agrafes ou de boutons décoratifs en marque le milieu et descend sur la jupe, qui est très ample et traîne sur le sol. [...] Ce surcot se porte sans ceinture.  1, record 5, French, - surcot%20ouvert

Record 5,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 6,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A dress with an abbreviated bodice usu. exposing the shoulders, arms and back.  3, record 6, English, - sundress

Record 6,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Robe à corsage bain-de-soleil.  1, record 6, French, - robe%20bain%2Dde%2Dsoleil

Record number: 6, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Pl. robes bain-de-soleil.  1, record 6, French, - robe%20bain%2Dde%2Dsoleil

Record 6,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 7,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 7, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A woman's top, consisting of a front bodice fastened behind at the neck and at the back or waist, leaving the arms, shoulders, most of the back, and, sometimes, the midriff bare.  3, record 7, English, - halter

Record 7,  Textual support,  French

Record 7,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 8,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 1 CONT

You will create and leave this class with your very own fitted muslin, fabric samples, slacks, bodice, sleeve and skirt foundations.  1, record 8, English, - skirt%20foundation

Record number: 8, Textual support number: 2 CONT

Day dress. This pattern is two pieces, a skirt made of a foundation skirt, pleated overskirt and the drape in the front and back forming a bustle.  2, record 8, English, - skirt%20foundation

Record 8,  Textual support,  French

Record 8,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 9,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 CONT

In the years since the New Look, several silhouettes have flourished for a time -- the sack dress, the miniskirt, the maxi among them. But the phenomenon of the New Look has yet to be duplicated.  1, record 9, English, - sack%20dress

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 2 CONT

Dior's Decade-Women'sFashions of the 1950s. Silhouette... silhouettes were more varied. On these outlines, women wore a trim bodice and very full knee-length skirt, or a fitted short, boxy jacket or blouse with a pencil-straight skirt. One style that hid all the rest, literally, was the cocoon-like sacque dress and coat, which fitted the shoulders and bloomed at the waist and hips.  2, record 9, English, - sack%20dress

Record 9,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Robe-sac : robe qui n'est pas ajustée à la taille.  1, record 9, French, - robe%20vague

Record number: 9, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Vague : Qui n'est pas ajusté, serré. - Flou, lâche.  1, record 9, French, - robe%20vague

Record 9,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 10,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Close fitting bodice with a decorated stomacher, double pleats at the back falling loosely from neck to hemline.  2, record 10, English, - robe%20%C3%A0%20la%20fran%C3%A7aise

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A ... sacque, also called robe à la française. This was a loose gown, sometimes sleeveless, distinguished by two wide pleats or folds which fell from the shoulders to the floor without being held in at the waist (the Watteau back).  3, record 10, English, - robe%20%C3%A0%20la%20fran%C3%A7aise

Record 10,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 10, Textual support number: 1 DEF

[...] robe faite d'un corsage ajusté, ouvrant devant sur une pièce d'estomac en triangle et généralement richement ornée; dans le dos, deux grands plis doubles partaient du milieu de l'encolure et tombaient librement pour s'épanouir au sol.  2, record 10, French, - robe%20%C3%A0%20la%20fran%C3%A7aise

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[...] la robe à la française [devient] une grande robe de cérémonie. On la porte alors sur de grands paniers. Son corsage moule très étroitement le buste sur lequel elle se ferme devant par un laçage dissimulé sous une patte; sa jupe, sur les côtés, épouse la forme des paniers.  3, record 10, French, - robe%20%C3%A0%20la%20fran%C3%A7aise

Record 10,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 11,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A bodice worn under an open blouse or jacket.  2, record 11, English, - underbodice

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The gown had double sleeves... the outer bodice had short cap sleeves worn over the longer sleeves of the underbodice.  3, record 11, English, - underbodice

Record 11,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 11, Textual support number: 1 CONT

La robe à la turque [et] la circassienne [...] comportent une robe de dessus à manches très courtes d'où dépassent les manches longues et collantes de la soubreveste, corsage de la robe de dessous.  2, record 11, French, - soubreveste

Record 11,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 12,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 DEF

18th and 19th c's : broad flat trimmings decorating a gown round the neck and down the front of the bodice, and sometimes continued down the borders of an open overskirt to the hem.  1, record 12, English, - robing

Record 12,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Riche bordure de tissu ou de fourrure qui pare les revers des vêtements, puis, plus spécifiquement, les devants de la robe à la française.  2, record 12, French, - parement

Record number: 12, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Au XVIIIe siècle, on appelait parement la longue bande, généralement ornée, qui bordait les devants de la robe à la française, étroite au corsage et s'élargissant le long du bas de robe.  3, record 12, French, - parement

Record 12,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 13,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Extension of bodice of dress that comes below waistline, sometimes pleated, sometimes flared.  2, record 13, English, - peplum

Record 13,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Prolongement rapporté et parfois amovible d'une robe de femme ou d'un corsage, qui retombe en forme de petite jupe sur les hanches.  1, record 13, French, - basque

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Depuis la pointe du busc sur le ventre, les côtés du corps échancrés pour épouser les hanches étaient partagés en un certain nombre de basques comme une queue d'écrevisse, basques dans lesquelles les baleines se continuaient.  2, record 13, French, - basque

Record number: 13, Textual support number: 1 OBS

forme fautive : péplum.  1, record 13, French, - basque

Record 13,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 14,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 CONT

About 1545 appeared the farthingale ... a petticoat reinforced by a series of graduated hoops of cane, whalebone, or wire. Its shape was that of a cone. The material ... was woollen, silk, satin, or velvet, usually of a brilliant colour. Fifty yards of whalebone might be used, in addition to buckram. (The History of Underclothes, 1951, p. 50).  1, record 14, English, - farthingale

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 2 CONT

farthingale worn, with rigid lowcut bodice, small ruffles, starched, fanlike collars with fancy edges.(This is Fashion, 1943, p. 130).  1, record 14, English, - farthingale

Record 14,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 14, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Mode espagnole de la fin du XVe s. introduite en France au XVIe s. Jupon de grosse toile tendue sur de gros fils de fer qui soutenait les jupes. (vertugadin en entonnoir) Au buste triangulaire long, [...] on ajoute en un temps le vertugadin, ustensile d'osier puis de cercles de fer, qui remplaça sous Henri III, un bourrelet matelassé, et qui devint aussi envahissant qu'une roue de carrosse. (Le costume, pourquoi et comment, 1967, p. 35).  1, record 14, French, - vertugadin

Record 14,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 15,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 15, Textual support number: 1 CONT

A fitting shell is made from a basic pattern-it may be a dress, pants, or just a bodice-sewed in inexpensive fabric and used exclusively for solving fitting problems.  1, record 15, English, - fitting%20shell

Record number: 15, Textual support number: 2 CONT

... garment shell should ideally be worn by the person for whom it is intended, with another person checking for fitting details.  1, record 15, English, - fitting%20shell

Record 15,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 15, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Le vêtement de pré-essayage se construit avec un patron dans un tissu peu coûteux, et n'est utilisé que pour l'ajustement. Lorsque vous aurez rectifié ce vêtement de pré-essayage pour qu'il convienne à vos mesures, reportez les rectifications sur le patron qui devient [...] le patron type.  2, record 15, French, - v%C3%AAtement%20de%20pr%C3%A9essayage

Record 15,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 16,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 16, Textual support number: 1 DEF

A short coat with three-quarter length sleeves, loose at the waist.  1, record 16, English, - bodice%20jacket

Record number: 16, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Worn by Irish women in the 1820s.  1, record 16, English, - bodice%20jacket

Record 16,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 16, Textual support number: 1 DEF

(...) essentiellement une robe à la française coupée à la hauteur des hanches et formant une sorte de petite veste d'allure paysanne.  1, record 16, French, - caraco

Record number: 16, Textual support number: 1 CONT

Vers 1768 apparaît le caraco emprunté à un costume provincial.  1, record 16, French, - caraco

Record 16,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 17,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 17, Textual support number: 1 DEF

The fitted part of a dress that extends from the waist to the shoulder.  1, record 17, English, - bodice

Record 17,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 17, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Vêtement ou partie du vêtement féminin qui recouvre le buste.  1, record 17, French, - corsage

Record 17,  Textual support,  Spanish

Record 18,  Textual support,  French

Record 18,  Textual support,  Spanish