LibGuides: Sociology 161: Gender Socialization & Fashion: Codpieces

Codpieces

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The Codpiece and the Pox
A brief history of the codpiece, that mysterious garment favored by 16th-century gents who just may have been covering up their cases of syphilis.

Not everyone liked the codpiece. Or the wearers.

Two Filthy Fashions, a poem by Robert Hayman (ca. 1618)

Of all fond fashion, that were worne by Men.
These two (I hope) will ne’r be worne againe:
Great Codpist Doublets, and great Codpist britch,
At seuerall times worne both by meane and rich:
These two had beene, had they beene worn together,
Like two Fooles, pointing, mocking each the other.