A dress question - Research thread

[TheEarl]

Can you talk of "the cleavage of her dress"? I mean to talk of the front of her dress, around her breasts, but I'm entirely unsure as to how that would be described.

The Earl


Addendum - are martinis cold?

 

[Colleen Thomas]

Can you talk of "the cleavage of her dress"? I mean to talk of the front of her dress, around her breasts, but I'm entirely unsure as to how that would be described.

The Earl

The upper part of a dress is rightly called the bodice. That would be roughly from the waist line up. The part directly affected as far as cleave is the neckline.

 

[neonlyte]

Can you talk of "the cleavage of her dress"? I mean to talk of the front of her dress, around her breasts, but I'm entirely unsure as to how that would be described.

The Earl


Addendum - are martinis cold?

Re: martini's - yes, either served on the rocks or poured into a chilled glass.
Can't really help with the 'bodice' - hate that word.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Can you talk of "the cleavage of her dress"? I mean to talk of the front of her dress, around her breasts, but I'm entirely unsure as to how that would be described.

The Earl


Addendum - are martinis cold?

I think of "cleavage" as being the visible area behind her dress. "Her plunging neckline showed plenty of cleavage, and it was really first class." "I was wearing dark glasses and she couldn't see me staring at her cleavage." "Her cleavage extended so far that I could actually see her areola."

 

[CharleyH]

The upper part of a dress is rightly called the bodice. That would be roughly from the waist line up. The part directly affected as far as cleave is the neckline.

Yes, Colly is correct. Bodice to me means a corset, though.

 

[Guest]

Hon, I'm familiar with décolleté used for a style of bodice that reveals cleavage. The word can be used as an adjective or noun.

Pear

 

[CharleyH]

Hon, I'm familiar with décolleté used for a style of bodice that reveals cleavage. The word can be used as an adjective or noun.

Pear

Aside from grammar, how in sex? Interested ... does bodice refer now .. to clothes or cleavage?

 

[Guest]

p.s. Hmmm. The OED offers this for "cleavage":

The cleft between a woman's breasts as revealed by a low-cut décolletage. colloq.

 

[yui]

Aside from grammar, how in sex? Interested ... does bodice refer now .. to clothes or cleavage?

Clothes. And, actually I think that corset is an obsolete definition of bodice.

 

[Guest]

Can you talk of "the cleavage of her dress"? I mean to talk of the front of her dress, around her breasts, but I'm entirely unsure as to how that would be described.

I should have gone back to your original query.

"The cleavage of her dress" reads oddly, just not right. Cleavage w/re. to a woman's anatomy (vs. granite samples) must needs include the cause (i.e., tits). A dress cannot have cleavage, but it certainly can reveal it. Anyroad, that's why I thought perhaps "the décolleté of her dress" might be useful.

"The décolleté of her dress (or blouse, sweater, top) revealed an astounding cleavage" ?

cleaved,

Pear

 

[NoJo]

Clothes. And, actually I think that corset is an obsolete definition of bodice.

William Shatner used to wear a bodice.

 

[CharleyH]

Clothes. And, actually I think that corset is an obsolete definition of bodice.

What is the new thing? Something PVC I hope? (seriously, what is new?)

 

[LadyJeanne]

Have none of you ever seen the cover of a 'bodice-ripper' romance novel? Bodice is the part of the dress that covers the breasts, cleavage is the squished together breasts revealed by a low bodice, corset is the breath-taking vise beneath the dress that squishes the breasts up and the waist in.

I have it on good authority from Favio.

 

[NoJo]

What is the new thing? Something PVC I hope? (seriously, what is new?)

Mmmm... PVC. I like a woman who squeaks when you rub her.

 

[minsue]

p.s. Hmmm. The OED offers this for "cleavage":

The cleft between a woman's breasts as revealed by a low-cut décolletage. colloq.

Décolletage is the word I was about to offer up. Should have known you'd get there first, 'Dita.

 

[Noor]

Aside from grammar, how in sex? Interested ... does bodice refer now .. to clothes or cleavage?

Bodice is clothes, cleavage is the part of a body were two parts comes together, as in a womans breasts, a the top of the butt.

A person has cleavage, clothes do not.

 

[LadyJeanne]

What is the new thing? Something PVC I hope? (seriously, what is new?)

Tear away breast cups on the bodice, ala Janet Jackson at her Superbowl half-time show. Nipple shields optional.

 

[NoJo]

Tear away breast cups on the bodice, ala Janet Jackson at her Superbowl half-time show. Nipple shields optional.

Unless you're lactating, of course.

 

[CharleyH]

Mmmm... PVC. I like a woman who squeaks when you rub her.

I love your big hair . I prefer sounds of flesh on flesh though.

Was J Jackson new? We have boobs in the street! We should have cock, but men are more shy

 

[LadyJeanne]

Was J Jackson new? We have boobs in the street!

Plumber's butt with thongs, then? That seems to be popular now.

 

[CharleyH]

Okay Lost is on now - HOT CHICKS HOT DICKS Well, okay - so its intriguing to me without dicks and only great chicks.

Have fun tonight people! BE BAD!

 

[TheEarl]

Thank you all. I've written around that particular sentence, although I'm making a mental note of decolletage; I know I'll need it later in the story.

Merci beaucoup.

The Earl

 

[cantdog]

Décolletage is the word I was about to offer up. Should have known you'd get there first, 'Dita.

"neckline' is more exact in the Earl's context.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

The upper part of a dress is rightly called the bodice. That would be roughly from the waist line up. The part directly affected as far as cleave is the neckline.

And of course the purpose of a bodice is to be ripped.

 

[Guest]

no idea about the bodice/corset/neckline/hem/edge/swelling boosoms/over flowing flesh...


however, martinis... chilled... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm