So let’s just get on with it: The codpiece, as it is called, was wildly popular for just a brief few decades during the Renaissance ... unpack how this bizarre fashion footnote has continued ...

Roberta Orsi Landini, a fashion historian in Florence, shows the BBC's Stephen Smith how people in renaissance Italy used to wear a codpiece. Stephen Smith presents How to Get Ahead at Court on ...

In the world of fashion, no classic piece ever quite ... so it was a shape that suggested virility." "Back in the Renaissance, was the codpiece anatomically correct?" I asked.