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The tunic, so far as women's dress is concerned, may be said to have finally disappeared{77} by the time of the Tudors, when a woman's dress consisted of kirtle or petticoat, and bodice or stomacher.

She wears a black dress with stiffened collar behind, ornamented with gold embroidery, open at the neck, disclosing a pink bodice also richly embroidered, the sleeves furred at the elbows.

The rigidity of the bodice at the commencement{146} of the Hanoverian period was an echo of an earlier time, when Good Queen Bess strutted it in wheeled farthingale.

But she-the naughty baggage-little will she care what they put upon the bodice of her gown!

" "What do we talk of marks and brands, whether on the bodice of her gown or the flesh of her forehead?

" she added, giving Vronsky one finger of the hand in which she held her fan, and with a shrug of her shoulders she twitched down the bodice of her gown that had worked up, so as to be duly naked as she moved forward towards the footlights into the light of the gas, and the sight of all eyes.

He imagined, probably mistakenly, that this low-necked bodice had been made on his account, and felt that he had ... e was to blame for the very fact of the low-necked bodice having been made.

Besides, the sister-in-law with her low-necked bodice aroused in him a feeling akin to shame and remorse for some utterly base action.

Betsy, dressed in the height of the latest fashion, in a hat that towered somewhere over her head like a shade on a lamp, in a blue dress with violet crossway stripes slanting one way on the bodice and the other way on the skirt, was sitting beside Anna, her tall flat figure held erect.

After she had gone, a dressmaker from Madame Suppert-Roguet waited on the Rostovs, and Natasha, very glad of this diversion, having shut herself into a room adjoining the drawing room, occupied herself trying on the new dresses.


Just as she had put on a bodice without sleeves and only tacked together, and was ... .


Natasha had not time to take off the bodice before the door opened and Countess Bezukhova, dressed in a purple velvet gown with a high collar, came into the room beaming with good-humored amiable smiles.



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