the waist to the hips and stomach. The term girdle began to be used to identify this type of undergarment around the time of the First World War. Around...

American sports (for what is really a kind of underwear). The girdle as an undergarment or abbreviated corset around the waist is a different, essentially...

up girdle in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A girdle is a garment that encircles the midsection. Girdle may also refer to: Girdle (undergarment), form-fitting...

girdle around the waist known as a Kushti.[citation needed] The loincloth is the simplest form of underwear; it was probably the first undergarment worn...

commentary Volume 6 Jacob Neusner - 1998 "5:3 [A] Out of the worn-out undergarments and girdles of the priests they made wicks, [B] and with them they lit the...

or around the chest to bind the breasts. Bandeau Breast binding Girdle § Undergarment Haramaki James Curtis Hepburn (1867). A Japanese and English Dictionary:...

A chemise or shift is a classic smock type of women's undergarment or dress. Historically, a chemise was a simple garment worn next to the skin to protect...

French: [lɛ̃ʒʁi] ) is a category of primarily women's clothing including undergarments (mainly brassieres), sleepwear, and lightweight robes. The choice of...

top of the legs. It may incorporate lace in front or in back. As an undergarment, a corselet can be open-style (with suspenders attached) or panty-style...

Retrieved 22 January 2016. Polidoro, 2011: 27-28 Dingwall, Eric J (1931). The Girdle of Chastity: A Medico-Historical Study. Routledge. Archived from the original...

The corset is a supportive undergarment for women, dating, in Europe, back several centuries, evolving as fashion trends have changed and being known,...

such as skirts, trousers, shorts, swimsuits, and undergarments. A waistband can be a complete undergarment, worn to limit expansion of the abdomen, to meet...

A corset is a support undergarment worn to hold and train the torso into the desired shape and posture. They are traditionally constructed out of fabric...

was not usually called a veil. It is usually described as a chemise (undergarment) or tunic, or occasionally a supparum (shawl), all garments typically...

was decorated with lace in the cleavage. From the 16th century, the undergarments of wealthier women in the Western world were dominated by the corset...

civilians typically wore two pieces of clothing draped about the body: an undergarment (χιτών : chitōn or πέπλος : péplos) and a cloak (ἱμάτιον : himátion or...

The priestly tunic (Hebrew: כֻּתֹּנֶת kutonet) was as an undergarment or shirt worn by the High Priest and priests when they served in the Tabernacle and...

approximately the 16th century CE onward, the corset dominated the undergarments of wealthier women in the Western world. Corsets came in varying lengths...

commentary Volume 6 Jacob Neusner - 1998 "5:3 [A] Out of the worn-out undergarments and girdles of the priests they made wicks, [B] and with them they lit the...

peplos-like garment, pulled up to the armpit and worn over a sleeved undergarment (usually another dress). The garment was clasped front to back by fastening...

tunic - the jōe proper - an outer robe called jōe no sodegukuri no o, an undergarment known as the hitoe (lit. "unlined" or "one-layer"), ballooning trousers...

down as it is pulled downward by the stockings. Some undergarments such as corselettes or girdles may come with suspender slings attached. By the late...

the subject of a The Wall Street Journal article about the market for undergarments of this nature. Joiner, Lottie (8 July 2011). "Booty Pop entrepreneurs...

Nancy Ganz (born June 16, 1955) is an American undergarment entrepreneur, creator of the shapewear category, and the founder (1990) and former president...

tip to outstretched thumb tip). Stating that it was held together by a girdle, and had two shoulder straps which were fastened to the front of the ephod...

other clothing is needed or wanted. Loincloths are commonly used as an undergarment or swimsuit by wrestlers and by farmers in paddy fields in both Sri Lanka...

mourning, it was called a saḳ. When garments were held together by a belt or girdle, the cloth was also called an 'ezor or ḥagor. kethōneth The 'ezor later...

unitard, and swimsuits, are usually form-fitting. Undergarments or foundation garments such as corsets, girdles, bodysuits, brassieres, and underpants are form-fitting...

underwear as outerwear has historical antecedents in the display of undergarments in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is unclear when this...

dress". The movement had its greatest success in the reform of women's undergarments, which could be modified without exposing the wearer to social ridicule...