Some codpieces had cute little bows on them. Some time around 1536, Hans Holbein the Younger was finessing Henry VIII's crotch. With a fine brush in his hand and a palette of watercolour paints beside ...

There really is no delicate way to open a story about a piece of horsehair-lined leather designed to cover and celebrate a man’s genitals, is there? So let’s just get on with it: The codpiece, as it ...

Sting still owns the famous codpiece that he wore in David Lynch’s 1984 film version of Dune. The musician played the role of Feyd-Rautha in the film – the nephew of and heir to Baron Vladimir ...

You wouldn’t know it by looking at them thanks to the dramatically different visual style between David Lynch’s Dune and Denis Villeneuve two-part masterpiece, but Sting and Austin Butler are playing ...

Originally a way to cover men’s poles in 15th and 16th century Europe, men wore codpieces beneath their doublets with no other underwear, before the ingenious sartorial invention became a piece of ...

I used to teach at a high school in Brooklyn that required all boys to wear ties as part of their daily uniform. One morning, a freshman named Sammy showed up with his purple tie (that was the school ...