Basque (clothing) Basque (clothing) A basque is an item of women's clothing. The term, of French origin, originally referred to types of bodice or jacket with long tails, and in later usage a long corset, characterized by a close, contoured fit and extending past the waistline over the hips. It is so called because the original French fashion for long women's jackets was adopted from Basque traditional dress. In contemporary usage it refers only to a long item of lingerie, in effect a brassiere that continues down, stopping around the waist or the top of the hips, the lower part essentially decorative
Caroline Phelps Stokes plus needy and deserving white students. Her sister, Olivia, continued her charitable works and acted as a trustee of the Phelps Stokes Fund. She also donated two tenements to the fund called the Dudley complex at 339-349 East 32nd Street, New York, designed by her nephew, Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes. She, like her sister Caroline, never married and died in 1927. Caroline Phelps Stokes Caroline Phelps Stokes (4 December 1854 – 1909) was a benefactor to many organisations that helped the underprivileged in the USA, Africa and the Near East, supporting churches, libraries, educational establishments, orphanages, housing and more. A