Codpiece

Codpieces were a type of front-cover for the breeches of human or humanoid males, allowing them to maintain public decency by covering their private parts. "Being a princess - any princess - of the Dragon Throne is not a matter of wearing pretty gowns and murmuring diplomatic nothings, of smiling and waving. Cormyr needs princesses who can think. All too many princes and noble lords conduct their reasoning only with their codpieces, so you lasses who lack them must do their thinking for them"

- Vangerdahast Aeiulvana to Tanalasta Obarskyr

Availability

 * Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue was known to sell linen and velvet codpieces in the form of both a flat cover or a bag, with the velvet variants being more expensive. They also offered them with optional gold ornamentation and gem encrustion.
 * Mulgur Wottyn of Waterdeep was known to sell codpieces that had a clip-fitted interior vial for holding various potions or alcohol.

Reputation
In Faerûn, codpieces were considered an essential article of clothing for any well-dressed man, at least according to Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue.

Notable Wearers

 * There was a standard-issue codpiece among members of the Purple Dragons. King Azoun IV was one of many people known to wear these.
 * Florin Falconhand wore a metal codpiece circa 1348 DR, which fortuitously protected his tender regions from Narantha Crownsilver's kick.
 * Grobnar Gnomehands, who claimed to have once welded a spring-mounted mechanical shield to his metal codpiece during a battle.
 * Valivaert Melormedon.
 * Shaveli Sword-Master wore a metal codpiece fashioned in the image of a fiend with a protruding pointed tongue.

Trivia

 * In Menzoberranzan's Eastmyr district, there was a festhall named the Mithral Codpiece.
 * A slang term for a lecher in Common was a "codloose winker".