farthingale

In the book The Girl in the Song: The Real Story Behind 50 Rock Classics, authors Michael Heatley and Frank Hopkinson wrote: "The girl with the mousy hair is a reference to Hermione Farthingale." And on tour in 1990, Bowie introduced it by saying, "You fall in love, you write a love song.

With a nod to gender bending, Bekkers sometimes adds the top ring of the drum farthingale to his Elizabethan menswear, a look that brings a whimsical sense of equality to men's garments, which are usually dwarfed by the size of the women's dresses.

She is excessively accessorized with a massive farthingale, several sleeves, a cartwheel ruff, jewels, a headpiece, a fan and a mirror, and her facial and bodily features are simplified and exaggerated.

In his La Carrozza (1649), a text in which fashion is interwoven with political economies, national identity, and gender construction, he derides the use of the farthingale as a grotesque spectacle, a "vanities of vanity," and a means to hide ugly things, such a pregnancies.

At one Colorado Renaissance fair, people adopted such roles as "The Wizard," "Heather the Potatoe Wench," "Ronin the Fool," "Ian the Healer," "Sister Odessa Farthingale," and "King Henry the Eighth."

She plans to acquire a new farthingale, a French hood, a bumroll, a periwig, a fan, and a mask (10.37-47).

Isabel de Velasco, the Menina (lady-in-waiting) who rests her arms casually on the extended farthingale that swells out her skirt is transformed by Picasso into a figure of fun: her head and neck, as placed by Picasso, mutate her expression from calm to crazed hilarity.

Whereas fashion extravagances of the past--the Elizabethan farthingale, the horsehair bustle of the 1870s--had always emphasized and exaggerated some part of the female anatomy, the new shapes ignored the body entirely, while at the same time they seemed to express inner moods, forgotten dreams, buried realms of feeling.

It was all so long ago, even the word petticoat sounds like something from another era like farthingale or furbelow.

This "Spanish farthingale," as it was called, when first introduced in Spain in the middle of the sixteenth century was restricted to court usage, but then became the dress of elegance par excellence.

Bound feet, bathing suits, and other bizarre and beautiful things are found in this book that "travels across thousands and years and through countless cultures and countries to tell the story of fashion in some of its weirdest, wildest, and most wonderful forms." Chapter One covers females (pun intended) in bloomers, hoop skirts, the farthingale, the bun roll, Mary Quant's mini, pantyhose, corsets, Victorian bathing suits, and string bikinis.

she turned the house topsy-turvy; cut the noses out of the old portraits, and chewed the jewels out of the settings, killed the little home animals, spoiled the dinners, pranced in the garden with Madam Willoughby's farthingale, and royal stiff brocades rustling yards behind,--this atom of a shrimp,--or balanced herself with her heels in the air over the curb of the well, scraped up the dead leaves under one corner of the house and fired them,--a favorite occupation,--and if you left her stirring a mess in the kitchen, you met her, perhaps, perched in the china-closet and mumbling all manner of demoniacal prayers, twisting, writhing, and screaming over a string of amber gods that she had brought with her and always wore.

Thorough attention is given to the impact of the farthingale and other fashions upon the construction and presentation of images.