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SUMMARY:What goes up must come down: the decline of the renaissance codpie
 ce - Victoria Miller\, Faculty of History
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CONTACT:Dr Duncan Needham
DESCRIPTION:After prevailing for over fifty years\, the trend for sporting
  a codpiece was on the wane by the end of the sixteenth century: the acces
 sory appears less frequently in contemporary portraiture\, and literary so
 urces begin to refer to the garment as an outdated fad. As Rosita Levi Pis
 etzky points out\, the garment would seem already out of fashion by the ti
 me Cesare Vecellio's 'Habiti Antichi et Moderni' was published (circa 1589
 ). My research proposes to trace the fall of the codpiece in early modern 
 male fashion by closely exploring the final stages of this salient trend. 
 Why did this once ubiquitous article of male attire disappear\, and what n
 ew styles emerged in its place?
LOCATION:The Richard King Room\, Darwin College
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