Busk

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The love poem reads, "I have from the Lady this favor to be long on her bosom. Whence I hear a lover sigh who covets my place."

The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.

Metropolitan Museum of Art