Since the film is set in the 19th century, Jones was outfitted in a series of Victorian era gowns, replete with bodice and bustle.
Many of the looks, like a bodice worn with a figure-hugging pencil skirt, remained seductive and sexy despite its muted colors.
It was so big that it took me an hour to get into it and the only way for me to go to the bathroom was to take off the bodice.
Also, coins did not conveniently slide into the “vault” (Bunny-speak for bodice) the way paper money did.
She took out a handkerchief from inside the bodice of her dress and dried her eyes.
Nana no longer needed to stuff wads of paper into her bodice, her breasts were grown.
Next he would sniff at her waist and bodice: "Ah, that's wall-flowers!"
She was quite flushed, and her bodice, generally so still and lifeless, began to heave.
From a recess covered by a shawl running on a string she took down her bodice.
He assumes that the lettering which borders the bodice in this drawing—ALS.
1560s, oddly spelled plural of body, name of a tight-fitting Elizabethan garment covering the torso; plural because the body came in two parts which fastened in the middle. Bodice-ripper for "racy romance novel" is from 1981.
