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
Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps after college. ▪ Husband—Austin Phelps – Professor at Andover Theological Seminary. ▪ Daughter—Mary Gray, author, renamed Elizabeth Stuart Phelps after her mother died. Became Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward after she married Herbert Dickinson Ward, a journalist. ▪ Little Kitty Brown and Her Bible Verses. (1851) ▪ Kitty Brown and Her City Cousins. (1852) ▪ Kitty Brown and Her Little School. (1852) ▪ Kitty Brown Beginning to Think. (1853) ▪ The Sunny Side and a Peep at Number Five. (1853) ▪ The Sunny Side; or, The Country Minister's Wife. (1851) ▪ A Peep at Number Five; or, A Chapter in the