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  2. The Story Behind Shapewear: From Girdles to Spanx - AOL

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    Shapewear is every woman's best kept

  3. Girdle (undergarment) - Wikipedia

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    A woman's girdle (in pink), 1933. A girdle is a form-fitting foundation garment that encircles the lower torso, extending below the hips, and worn often to shape or for support. It may be worn for aesthetic or medical reasons. In sports or medical treatment, a girdle may be worn as a compression garment.

  4. Lingerie - Wikipedia

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    Girdle, a type of foundation garment. Historically, the girdle extended from the waist to the upper thigh, though modern styles more closely resemble a tight pair of athletic shorts. Hosiery, close-fitting, elastic garments that cover the feet and legs. Negligee, a dressing gown. It is usually floor length, though it can be knee length as well.

  5. Foundation garment - Wikipedia

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    Kim Kardashian in Shapewear-dress Wolford shop front displaying shapewear collection. A foundation garment (also known as shapewear or shaping underwear) is an undergarment designed to impermanently alter the wearer's body shape, to achieve what some view as a more fashionable figure.

  6. Meredith Vieira admits to not wearing underwear on 'The View'

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    On "The Colbert Report," Meredith Vieira revealed she used to go without a certain item of clothing on "The View." "You said, 'I don't wear underwear.'" "I did say that." "Yes, which is

  7. Girdle - Wikipedia

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    A Christian priest wearing a white girdle around his waist to hold his alb and stole in place. A belt without a buckle, especially if a cord or rope, is called a girdle in various contexts, especially historical ones, where girdles were a very common part of everyday clothing from antiquity until perhaps the 15th century, especially for women ...

  8. History of corsets - Wikipedia

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    Woman's stays c. 1730–1740. Silk plain weave with supplementary weft-float patterning, stiffened with whalebone. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.63.24.5. [1]The corset is a supportive undergarment for women, dating, in Europe, back several centuries, evolving as fashion trends have changed and being known, depending on era and geography, as a pair of bodies, stays and corsets.

  9. Underwear fetishism - Wikipedia

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    One type of underwear fetishism involves stockings.. Underwear fetishism is a sexual fetishism relating to undergarments, and refers to preoccupation with the sexual excitement of certain types of underwear, including panties, stockings, pantyhose, bras, or other items.