Citations:gates of hell


 * 1907, Wilfred Mark Webb, The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes, page 344:
 * ... sleeves and tightly laced bodice of the time. A hundred years later English preachers took exception to laced openings through which ladies showed their costly under-linen, and dignified them with the name of "gates of hell."
 * 2002, Maura Spiegel, Lithe Sebesta, The Breast Book: Attitude, Perception, Envy & Etiquette, Workman Publishing Company (ISBN 9780761121121)
 * THE GREAT CORSET CONTROVERSY
 * Corsets (and the exposure of the bosom) attracted controversy from early on. Medieval churchmen viewed the front lacings of bodices as &quot;the gates of hell,&quot; and French essayist Montaigne attacked the ...
 * 2020, Richard Shaw Pooler, Leonardo Da Vinci's Treatise of Painting: The Story of The World's Greatest Treatise on Painting - Its Origins, History, Content, And Influence, Vernon Press (ISBN 9781622739882), page 56:
 * She [Agnès Sorel] had the disarming habit of walking the battlements with her laced bodice open, revealing her breasts. The Church referred to her laced bodice as &#39;the gates of Hell!&#39; About five years later, in 1450, she died from Mercury poisoning, ...