Kranzler Original Assignee Alexandru Angheluta Kranzler Leonard I Priority date (The priority date is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.) Expired - Fee Related Application number US07/477,475 Inventor Alexandru Angheluta Leonard I. Google Patents Man's underwear with an integral codpiece-like constructionĭownload PDF Info Publication number US5029345A US5029345A US07/477,475 US47747590A US5029345A US 5029345 A US5029345 A US 5029345A US 47747590 A US47747590 A US 47747590A US 5029345 A US5029345 A US 5029345A Authority US United States Prior art keywords panel fabric codpiece improvement secured Prior art date Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google Patents US5029345A - Man's underwear with an integral codpiece-like construction Liliana Leopardi, Ph.D., is a professor of art history at Colorado College and a docent for Context Rome.US5029345A - Man's underwear with an integral codpiece-like construction Bronzino’s ‘Portrait of Guidobaldo della Rovere’ (1531/32), Georg Pencz’s ‘Portrait of a Young Man’ (1544), and Francois Clouet’s ‘Portrait of Henry II’ (1589) ![]() In Florence, check out these works in the Uffizi. These uppity women certainly knew their minds, which is a really good thing since they certainly did not have a ‘queer eye for the straight guy’!Īmong my favorite codpieces in Rome is Bronzino’s ‘Portrait of Stefano IV Colonna’ located at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte and Bachiacca’s ‘Life of Joseph: The Search for the Stolen Cup’ at the Galleria Borghese. The letter was written by two women to the city council of Ascoli Piceno as a response to the continuous accusations against women’s fashion. This is to be considered horribly dishonest and in truth we can no longer bear to see it.” ![]() Hear, Hear, Messeres, in your short clothing, to show off a pair of fine stockings you wear jackets and doublets so short that you show all the buttocks and the whole bum and rear, and not only from the rear but also in front you show off big, long, and thin codpieces that point upwards. But what did women think of men’s sense of fashion? Not much evidence survives, but I recently rediscovered this 16th century letter in the course of my research. Some scholars of fashion claim that the codpiece slowly fell out of style after 1575 thanks to Queen Elizabeth I of England who decided that she had not much use for a man’s virility since she would not marry nor bear children. The codpiece was padded and used to call attention to a man’s virile assets. As the jackets shortened, men were faced with a modesty conundrum thus, the invention of a little triangular flat piece of fabric to cover the slash and contain the genitalia.īut the line between modesty and exhibitionism soon became blurred and by the 16th century these functional pouches had become the fashion accessory to sport. Since men’s hosiery were usually open at the crotch level, the family jewels were left rather free and only covered by the length of the doublet. Its use seems to have come about when men’s jackets, or doublets, started getting shorter and shorter. Clearly, name and form directly referred to the function of this interesting fashion accessory. And piece or ‘pece’ … well it meant just that. In Middle English ‘codd’ meant bag and scrotum. But have you stopped and thought about the purpose these cloth sacks strecthed over the male crotch served during the Renaissance? Why do they seem to get bigger and bigger in statues and paintings through the centuries, only to disappear around 1575? And have you ever wondered what Renaissance women thought of such saucy displays of virility?Ī codpiece, unlike what you might think, has nothing to do with fish. Your teenage kids have surely snickered at them. I am speaking, of course, about codpieces. ![]() They are hard to miss, considering how proudly they are emphasized and displayed in 15th and 16th century male portraiture. Admit it, you know you have stared and gawked.
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