1 gen 1694 anni - bodies

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Items of clothing, found usually in the term ‘pair of bodies’. 1520 <i>It’m ij newebodys and j olde,</i> Mount Grace (YAJ18/295); 1638 <i>one paire of bodies</i>, Sheffield (YRS54/96); 1694 <i>she did then heare Ann Bingley proffer unto Elizabeth Dey a paire of stayes or bodies</i>, Middlestown (QS1). The use of the plural was because the garment was made in two parts, and it was responsible later for ‘bodice’. The term was used of more than one type of clothing and as a type of corset it would be an inner garment for the upper part of the body, quilted and strengthened with whalebone. These were sometimes worn by men but were chiefly for women. Also for women ‘bodies’ could be a tight-fitting outer garment, often separate from the skirt.

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