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Except for bits and pieces, no gorgeous suits from Shakespeare's day survive, no gold-bordered gowns from Mona Lisa's wardrobe, none of King Richard III's rich doublets fitted to his humpback.
Corseting has stopped looking dishonorable and started looking chic again, both as a feature of recent ball gowns and wedding gowns and as a costume component that can give a modern frisson to movies set in ancient days.
Back home at stately Wayne Manor, they lounged about in dressing gowns.
But the moment she berates the "privilege" of those who couldn't afford to make a down payment on her carriage house, or invokes the "greed" of those making 125 percent of the mean per capita income, I'm with Hick, who said to Eleanor during a White House dinner, "God damn it--none of us ought to be wearing velvet dinner gowns these days."
The couture ball dress and the standard wedding dress do, after all, keep suggesting the possibility, and Madonna's Oscar outfit this year suggests that full gowns have even attained the status of something avant-garde.