Word: bustiers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Foley & Corinna in New York City, A new, peppermint pink bustier glows beside a 1962 cotton sundress and a Christian Dior cashmere sweater circa 1980. Shoppers at Vylette in Austin, Texas, peruse the latest collections from Lacoste and Marc by Marc Jacobs along with vintage khaki skirts and crocheted sweaters--many of them rescued from oblivion by one of the store owners' mothers, who frequents garage sales...
Instead, something offensive happened. In a jaw-dropping denouement to the MTV-produced halftime show, Justin Timberlake sang, "I gotta have you naked by the end of this song," reached across Janet Jackson's black leather bustier and exposed--well, yes. But he exposed more than that. What the Super Bowl incident (Nipplegate? Boobytrap? The Tempest in a C Cup?) also revealed was the hypocrisies of the entertainment and sports industries, the commercial culture and even the viewing public...
...point. More problematic than the distant, blink-and-you’ll-miss-it exposure was the action which caused it: Timberlake’s violent ripping-away of Jackson’s clothing. Whether or not he meant to leave behind Jackson’s bright red bustier, as he later claimed, is not important. What matters is that the lingering image of the performance—indeed, the entire halftime show—was supposed to be that of a man committing a sexually transgression against a woman...
...Corsets, An Absolute Necessity," or the male stockings with fake calf muscles, but many of the body-distorting items in this exhibition are recent fashion misstatements. Categorized by anatomy--feet, waist, chest--this show is most surprising not when comparing Victorian support garments to the 2000 Issey Miyake bustier (above) but in its cross-cultural references. The Mongo women of Zaire, for example, wore a belt that looks like the tail of a Playboy Bunny...
...Thandiwe. She looked quite prim and proper in her green calf-length dress as she waited for johns outside 109 Tongogaro Street in the center of downtown. So, for that matter, do the dozens of other women cruising the city's dim street corners: not a mini or bustier or bared navel in sight. Zimbabwe is in many ways a prim and proper society that frowns on commercial sex work and the public display of too much skin...