Corsets and Codpieces: A History of Outrageous Fashion, from Roman Times to the Modern Era

by Karen Bowman

The fur that adorned the sleeves of the gentry or aristocratic ladies’ ‘trumpet’ sleeves could be as exotic as Lucerne or lynx fur, genet, the fur of the civet cat, or Foins, the name given to the pelts of the more common weasel-like animal namely the beech marten.