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(disambiguation).
For the types and styles of women's undergarments, see lingerie.
Undergarments, also called "underwear", "underpants," "lingerie", or
"panties" (undergarments for women), or sometimes "intimate clothing", and
"pants" or "knickers", are clothes worn next to the skin, usually under
other clothes. They are also known as 'Katch' or 'Katchie' and worn under
Indian traditional clothing.
Contents
1 Uses
2 History
2.1 Ancient history
2.2 Middle Ages and Renaissance
2.2.1 Male undergarments
2.2.2 Female undergarments
2.3 Enlightenment and Industrial Age
2.4 1900s
2.5 1910s
2.6 1920s
2.7 1930s
2.8 1940s
2.9 1950s and 1960s
2.10 1970s till the present day
2.11 Men's underwear, 1990s to the present
3 Religious significance
4 Underwear styles and function
5 Not wearing undergarments
6 Underwear exposed above trousers and not wearing it
7 Designers / retailers of underwear
8 See also
9 References
10 Further reading
11 External links
Uses
A man wearing a Japanese traditional fundoshi—specifically a red
rokushaku.Some clothing is specifically underwear, while some is also used
as swimsuits (if made of suitable material), and both T-shirts and some
shorts are suitable as underwear as well as outer clothing. Suitability as
outer clothing is, apart from outdoor or indoor climate, largely a social
and sometimes even a legal matter. One of the criteria for shorts not to
be suitable as outer clothing may be that it has a fly that avoids
exposure of the genitals just by an overlap of cloth, without buttons
etc.[citation needed]
In the English Regency times this garment, basic for both men and women,
was straight cut, usually knee length, and had the elbow length sleeves
set straight into the shoulders.
The two major types of men's underpants are boxer shorts (shorts-length
and loose; also known as "boxers") and briefs (smaller and tighter), which
are also referred to as Y-fronts in British English.
In addition to keeping outer garments from soiling, undergarments are worn
for a variety of reasons: warmth, comfort and hygiene being the most
common. Undergarments are often used for modesty or erotic display;
sometimes both of these motivations are simultaneously present.
History
Ancient history
Roman female underwear from a mosaic at the Piazza Armerina, Sicily.The
loincloth is the simplest form of underwear; it was probably the first
undergarment worn by human beings. A loincloth may take three major forms.
The first, and simplest, is simply a long strip of material which is
passed between the legs and then around the waist. The ancient Hawaiian
malo was of this form, as are several styles of the Japanese fundoshi.
Another form is usually called a cache-sexe: a triangle of cloth is
provided with strings or loops, which are used to fasten the triangle
between the legs and over the genitals. The alternate form is more
skirt-like: a cloth is wrapped around the hips several times and then
fastened with a girdle.
In warmer climates, the loincloth may be the only clothing worn (making it
effectively not an undergarment), as was doubtlessly its origin, but in
colder temperatures, the loincloth often forms the basis of a person's
clothing and is covered by other garments. In most ancient civilizations,
this was the only undergarment available (King Tutankhamun was buried with
145 of them).
Men are said to have worn loincloths in ancient Greece and Rome, though it
is unclear whether Greek women wore undergarments. Mosaics of the Roman
period indicate Roman women (primarily in an athletic context, whilst
wearing nothing else) sometimes wore wrapped breastcloths or brassieres
made of soft leather, along with loincloths and possibly something like
panties.
Any cloth used may have been wool, linen or linsey-woolsey blend. Only the
upper classes could have afforded imported silk.
The loincloth continues to be worn by people around the world (it is the
traditional form of undergarment in many Asian societies, for example). In
various, mainly tropical, cultures, the traditional male dress may still
prescribe only a single garment below the waist or even none at all, with
underwear as optional, including the Far eastern Dhoti and Lungi or the
Scottish kilt.
Middle Ages and Renaissance
Male undergarments
Medieval braiesIn the Middle Ages, western men's underwear became looser
fitting. The loincloth was replaced by loose, trouser-like clothing called
braies, which the wearer stepped into and then laced or tied around the
waist and legs at about mid-calf. Wealthier men often wore chausses as
well, which only covered the legs.
By the Renaissance, the chausses became form-fitting like modern Hose, and
the braies became shorter to accommodate longer styles of chausses.
However, chausses and many braies designs were not intended to be covered
up by other clothing, so they are not actually underwear in the strictest
sense.
Charles V: 1530s codpiece.Braies were usually fitted with a flap in the
front that buttoned or tied closed. This codpiece allowed men to urinate
without having to remove the braies completely. Henry VIII of England
began padding his own codpiece, which caused a spiraling trend of larger
and larger codpieces that only ended by the end of the 16th century. There
are two possible explanations for Henry VIII's codpiece becoming larger
and larger. It is speculated that he, along with many others in this time
period, may have had the venereal disease syphilis. The large codpiece may
have included a bandage soaked in medication to relieve the symptoms. It
would then be wrapped again to protect the outer clothing. Henry VIII also
wanted a healthy son and may have thought that projecting himself in this
way would portray fertility.
The modern men's shirt appeared during this era, but it was originally an
undergarment. Men would wear this long shirt under their other clothing
and pull the long piece up from the back and then put their braies on over
the shirt. In this way the shirt acted as underwear. Renaissance noblemen
also adopted the doublet, a vest-like garment tied together in the front
and worn under other clothing.
Female undergarments
This lady wears an informal linen jacket over her rose-pink pair of bodies
(corset), smock, and elaborate petticoat, c. 1600Medieval women usually
wore a close-fitting garment called a chemise in France or a smock in
England (occasionally a shift), sometimes coupled with braies-like leg
wrappings.
They may have worn petticoats over the shift and under the dress. Quilted
petticoats could be worn during the winter. Elaborately-quilted petticoats
might be displayed by a cut-away dress, in which case they became a skirt
rather than an undergarment.
During the 16th century, the farthingale was popular. This was a petticoat
stiffened with reed or willow rods so that it stood out from a woman's
body, like a cone extending from the waist.
Corsets also began to be worn about this time. At first they were called
pair of bodies, which may refer both to a stiffened bodice designed to be
seen, and a bodice stiffened with buckram, reeds, canes, whalebone etc.,
worn underneath another, decorative, bodice. These were not the small-waisted,
curvy corsets familiar from the Victorian period, but straight-lined
corsets that flattened the bust.
There is a myth that Crusaders worried about the fidelity of their wives
and forced them to wear chastity belts. There is no reference, image, or
surviving belt to support this story. In fact most historians of this
period are of the view that chastity belts were worn to prevent sexual
assault and that the woman kept the key.
Enlightenment and Industrial Age
"Tight Lacing, or Fashion Before Ease", a satirical drawing of the early
1770sThe inventions of the spinning jenny machines and the cotton gin in
the second half of the 18th century made cotton fabrics widely available.
This allowed factories to mass-produce underwear, and for the first time,
people began buying undergarments in stores rather than making them at
home.
Women's stays of the 18th century were laced behind and drew the shoulders
back to form a high, round bosom and erect posture. With the relaxed
country styles of the end of the century, stays became shorter and were
unboned or only lightly boned, and were now called corsets. Undue binding
of a corset sometimes led to a woman needing to retire to the fainting
room. Colored stays were fashionable.
'health corsets' in 1883As tight waists became fashionable in the 1820s,
the corset was again boned and laced to form the figure. By the 1860s, a
tiny ('wasp') waist came to be seen as a symbol of beauty, and the corsets
were stiffened with whalebone or steel to accomplish this. By the 1880s,
the dress reform movement was campaigning against the pain and damage to
internal organs and bones caused by tight lacing. Inez Gaches-Sarraute
invented the Health corset, with a straight-fronted bust made to help
support the muscles of the wearer.
The corset was usually worn over a thin shirt-like garment of cotton or
muslin called a shift. Shift In the latter half of the 19th century, long
drawers, called pantalettes or pantaloons, often accompanied the shift to
keep the legs out of sight as skirts styles got shorter.
As skirts became fuller from the 1830s, women wore a profusion of
petticoats to achieve the fashionable bell shape. By the 1850s, stiffened
crinolines and later hoop skirts allowed ever wider skirts to be worn.
The bustle, a frame or pad worn over the buttocks to enhance their shape,
had been used off and on by women for two centuries, but it reached the
height of its popularity the later 1880s, and went out of fashion for good
in the 1890s.
union suitThe standard undergarment of the late 19th century for men,
women and children was the union suit, which provided coverage from the
wrists to the ankles (this "second skin" style is more commonly known as
long johns today). The union suits of the era were usually made of knitted
material and included a drop flap in the back to ease visits to the
toilet. Drawers for women were not generally worn until the mid-nineteenth
century when the adoption of crinolines made them necessary for reasons of
modesty and warmth.
The jockstrap was invented in 1874 by C. F. Bennett of a Chicago sporting
goods company, Sharp & Smith, to provide comfort and support for bicycle
jockeys riding the cobblestone streets of Boston. In 1897 Bennett's
newly-formed Bike Web Company patented and began mass-producing the Bike
Jockey Strap[1].
1900s
Modern jockstrapBy the early 20th century, the mass-produced undergarment
industry was booming, and competition forced producers to come up with all
sorts of innovative and gimmicky designs to compete. The Hanes company
emerged from this boom and quickly established itself as a top
manufacturer of union suits. Textile technology continued to improve, and
the time to make a single union suit dropped from days to minutes.
Meanwhile, designers of women's undergarments relaxed the corset. The
invention of new, flexible but supportive materials allowed them to remove
the whalebone and steel while still providing support. The emancipation or
liberty bodice offered an alternative to constricting corsets, and in
Australia and the United Kingdom, the liberty bodice became a standard
item, for girls as well as women.
1910s
Ladies' underwear advertisement, 1913The increase in the number of
underwear manufacturers necessitated the birth of undergarment
advertising. The first underwear print advertisement in the United States
ran in the Saturday Evening Post in 1911 and featured oil paintings by
J.C. Leyendecker of the "Kenosha Klosed Krotch". Early underwear
advertisements placed emphasis on durability and comfort; fashion was
never a selling point.
By the end of the 1910s, Chalmers Knitting Company split the union suit
into upper and lower sections, effectively inventing the modern undershirt
and drawers. Women wore lacier versions of this basic duo known as the
camisole and drawers.
In 1913, a New York socialite named Mary Phelps Jacob changed women's
fashion forever when she cobbled the first brassiere together by tying two
handkerchiefs together with ribbon. Jacob's original intention was to
cover the whalebone sticking out of her corset, which was visible through
her sheer dress. Jacob began making brassieres for her family and friends,
and word of mouth soon spread about the garment. By 1914, Jacob had a
patent for her design and was marketing it throughout the United States.
Although women had worn brassiere-like garments years past, Jacob's was
the first to be successfully marketed and widely adopted.
In 1912, the United States had its first professional underwear designer.
Lindsay "Layneau" Boudreaux, an immigrant from France established the
short lived panty company "Layneau". Though her company closed within one
year, it had a significant impact on many levels. Boudreaux showed the
world that an American woman could establish and run a company, and she
also caused a revolution in the underwear industry. Boudreaux is possibly
the reason why up-scale underwear and panty stores exist today.
By the end of the decade, trouser-like "bloomers" (popularized by Amelia
Jenks Bloomer 1818-1894 but invented by Elizabeth Smith Miller) gained
popularity with the so-called Gibson girls who enjoyed more athletic
pursuits such as bicycling and tennis. This new female athleticism helped
push the corset out of style, as well. The other major factor in the
corset's demise was the fact that metal was in short supply in much of the
world during World War I. Steel-laced corsets were dropped in favor of the
brassiere.
Meanwhile, the soldiers of World War I were issued button-front shorts as
underwear. The buttons attached to a separate piece of cloth, or yoke,
sewn to the front of the garment, and tightness of fit was adjusted by
means of ties on the sides. This design proved so popular that it began to
supplant the union suit in popularity by the end of the war. Garments of
rayon also became widely available in the post-war period.
1920s
corset over "step ins" and camisole,1922.In the 1920s, manufacturers
shifted emphasis from durability to comfort. Union suit ads raved about
"patented" new designs that reduced the number of buttons and increased
accessibility. Most of these experimental designs had to do with new ways
to hold closed the crotch flap common on most union suits and drawers. A
new woven cotton fabric called nainsook gained popularity in the 1920s for
its durability. Retailers also began selling preshrunk undergarments.
Women's bloomers became much shorter and stockings covered the legs
instead. The shorter bloomers became looser and less supportive as the
boyish flapper look came into fashion. By the end of the decade, they came
to be known as step-ins, very much like modern panties but with wider
legs, worn for the increased flexibility they afforded.
As dancing became a favorite pastime of young flappers, the garter belt
was invented to keep stockings from falling. Nevertheless, the increased
sexuality of the flapper also made underwear sexier than ever before. It
was the flappers who ushered in the era of lingerie.
A Russian immigrant named Ida Rosenthal further developed the brassiere in
this decade when she introduced modern cup sizes in 1928 for her company,
Maidenform.
1930s
A man wearing a pair of boxer shortsMeanwhile, other modern men's
underwear was largely an invention of the 1930s. On January 19, 1935,
Coopers Inc. sold the world's first briefs in Chicago. The company placed
a Y-shaped front and overlapping fly on knitted drawers in both short and
long styles. They dubbed the design the "jockey" since it offered a degree
of support that had previously only been available from the jockstrap (the
company itself would later adopt the name Jockey, as well). Jockey briefs
proved so popular that over 30,000 pairs were sold within three months of
their introduction.
Companies began selling buttonless drawers fitted with an elastic
waistband, the first true boxer shorts (named for their resemblance to the
shorts worn by professional fighters). Scovil Manufacturing also
introduced the snap fastener at this time, which became a popular addition
to various kinds of undergarments.
Women of this decade brought the corset back, now called the girdle. The
garment lacked the whalebone and metal supports and usually came with a
brassiere (now usually called a bra) and often garters attached.
1940s
During World War II, elastic waistbands and metal snaps gave way once
again to button fasteners due to rubber and metal shortages. Undergarments
were harder to find, as well, since soldiers abroad had priority to get
them.
At war's end, Jockey and Hanes remained the industry leader in the United
States, but Cluett, Peabody and Company would make a name for itself when
it introduced a preshrinking process called Sanforization, which came to
be licensed by most major manufacturers.
Meanwhile, some women readopted the corset once again, now called the
waspie for the wasp-shaped waistline it gave the wearer. Many women began
wearing the strapless bra, as well, which gained popularity for its
ability to push the breasts up and enhance cleavage.
1950s and 1960s
Corselette of 1953In the 1950s, underwear manufacturers began marketing
printed and colored garments. What had once been a simple, white piece of
clothing not to be shown in public suddenly became a fashion statement.
The manufacturers also experimented with rayon and newer fabrics like
dacron and nylon. By 1960, men's underwear was regularly printed in loud
patterns or with images ranging from messages to cartoon characters.
Women's undergarments began to emphasize the breasts instead of the waist
in the 1950s. The decade saw the introduction of the bullet bra, which
featured pointed cups. The original Wonderbra and Fredericks of
Hollywood's push-up bra finally hit it big in this decade as well.
Meanwhile, women's panties had become even more colorful and decorative,
and by the mid-Sixties were also available in two smaller, more
abbreviated styles called the hip-hugger and the bikini (after the island
of that name), frequently in sheer nylon fabric.
Pantyhose, also called "tights" in British English, which combined panties
and hose into one garment, made their first appearance in 1959, invented
by Glen Raven Mills of North Carolina. The company later introduced
seamless pantyhose in 1965, spurred by the popularity of the miniskirt. By
the end of this decade, the girdle had fallen out of favor as women chose
sexier and lighter alternatives.[2]
1970s till the present day
Woman in camisole, garters and stockingsUnderwear as fashion matured in
the 1970s and 1980s, and underwear advertisers forgot about comfort and
durability, at least in advertising. Sex appeal became the main selling
point, in swimwear as well, bringing to fruition a trend that had been
building since at least the flapper era (underwear is the last barrier
before nudity, and thus it acts as a sort of gatekeeper to sex).
Tank tops, an undershirt type named after the Tank suit swimwear which
dates from the 1920s, have been popular warm-weather casual wear in the
United States since the 1980s and are regarded as acceptable public casual
dress in most locales there.
Performers in the 1980s such as Madonna and Cyndi Lauper also got into the
act, often wearing undergarments on top of other clothes. Later, in the
1990s, hip hop stars would popularize a similar style, known as the Sag,
which allowed loosely fitting blue jeans or shorts to droop low, exposing
the underwear. In fact, in the case of Mark Wahlberg, it was his success
as underwear model for Calvin Klein (with his chiseled muscularity on full
display in a series of advertisements in the early 1990s) that allowed him
a double launch to showbiz fame as both a white hip hop star and a
respectable Hollywood actor.
Man wearing popular Bond's brand "tighty-whiteys"Although it was worn for
decades by exotic dancers, the g-string first gained popularity in South
America, particularly in Brazil, in the 1980s. It was originally a style
of swimsuit made so that the back of the suit is so thin that it
disappears between the buttocks. By the 1990s, the design had made its way
to most of the Western World, and thong underwear became popular. Today,
thong underwear is one of the fastest selling styles available among women
and is even gaining some popularity among men.
In the 1990s, retailers started selling boxer briefs, which take the
longer shape of boxers but maintain the tightness of briefs. Though
marketed as a new design, these are actually quite similar to the bottom
half of the two-part union suits worn in the 1910s. In 2006, fashion gurus
Trinny Woodall and Susannah Constantine released a new style of underwear,
which are made of Nylon and designed to flatten the tummy or buttocks so
that the areas appear slimmer, therefore acting as both underwear and a
slimming mechanism.[3]
Underwear and brassieres are a common sex symbol in culture today and
modeling such as fashion shows
Men's underwear, 1990s to the present
Men's underwear styles in the present day have seen a dramatic shift in
style when compared to the evolution of female styles in underwear. While
women's underwear continued to emphasize feminine sexuality, around the
late 1980s and early 1990s; particularly in the United States, men's
underwear styles began to deemphasize sexuality, in favor of baggier and
looser styles. This trend also became evident in swimwear, which grew
longer and looser in this period as well as all other fashions which also
became consciously baggier and less form fitting. Despite this exodus from
extremely revealing undergarments, tighter fitting underwear still remains
popular.
Religious significance
Mormon Temple garments (two-piece style)
The tzitzis strings of one corner of a tallit. Note how the eight strings
are really four that are folded through the hole on the
tallit.Undergarments can also have religious significance. For example:
Some members of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints wear
special undergarments after they have been endowed in a temple to help
them remember the teachings of the temple.[4]
Many Jews wear a four-cornered garment called a tallit katan, with tzitzit
(fringes) attached at the corners[5].
Some Hindus wear a sacred thread, called the Yajñopavītam, underneath
their clothing.
One of the five articles of the Sikh faith is underwear called kaccha.
Underwear styles and function
Traditional BriefToday, there are many options in underwear available.
These include
boxer style (at or near true waist, leg sections extending to thighs)
woven boxer (traditional)
knit boxer (like traditional but with more fabric give)
boxer brief (also knit; more form-fitting)
pouch boxer brief (boxer briefs but with pouch for genitals rather than
access flap)
athletic-style (skin-tight, usually with no access pouch or flap; like
short tights; a variation are cycling shorts
retro style (boxer shorts in a brief style)
brief style (knit fabric, with access pouch or flap; usually at or near
true waist, leg bands at tops of thighs
traditional brief (vertical flap)
double seat brief or double back brief
diagonal flap brief
pouch brief
low-cut/low-rise brief
bikini brief (usually lower than true waist, often at hips, usually no
access pouch or flap, legs bands at tops of thighs)
high-side bikini brief
low-side bikini brief
string bikini brief (the front and rear sections meet in the crotch with a
shoestring-like thread at the top, with no fabric on the side of the legs)
g-string type (with a front pouch for the genitals but no rear coverage)
thong (with a strap securing the pouch at the bottom rear, passing up the
crack between the buttocks to the waistband)
athletic supporters, also known as jockstraps (with two straps securing
the pouch at the bottom rear, passing through the perineum, around the
bases of the buttocks up to the waistband at the sides) and dance belt
strapless pouches (with a front pouch and waistband only, no securing
straps)
Man in boxer briefs (trunks style)
Women's panties or knickersThere are also many types of long underwear,
union suits, and other variations of men's underwear. Some underpants also
have a fly. These usually do not allow detachment at the waist; elasticity
allows them to be taken on and off. Usually the fly of underpants avoids
exposure of the skin just by an overlap of cloth, without buttons, etc.
Such a property may be one of the criteria for boxer shorts not to be
suitable as outer clothing.
Today, there are many specialized types of underwear made for sexual
purposes, such as edible underwear or crotchless panties. Most of these
are meant simply to display the body or genitals in certain ways, while
some are intended to provide genital stimulation as well. Frederick's of
Hollywood is an example of a business centered around manufacturing and
selling such underwear.
Not wearing undergarments
Main article: Going commando
Not wearing undergarments under one's outer clothing is also known in
American slang as freeballing for men or freebuffing for females; the
terms going commando and going bareback are also used for both sexes.[6]
Finding female celebrities who are not wearing underwear and taking
upskirt pictures of them is quite a common action undertaken by the
paparazzi as the right picture of the right woman can earn them a lot of
money.
This trend shows that a few consider underwear unnecessary for hygiene,
especially for modern people who bathe every day.
In situations where a certain amount of body coverage is required (legally
or socially), people who prefer to go clothes free might enjoy not wearing
undergarments, as that is the closest they can get to nudity. For others,
there may be sexual motives; undergarments are the final physical barrier
to sex, and not wearing them might be arousing.
Cycling shorts and swimwear such as board shorts are usually worn without
underwear. Often the same applies for a kilt.
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A teddy is a form of bodysuit-like lingerie, often worn in the
boudoir. By definition, a teddy is an undergarment which combines a
camisole and panty in one piece. Unlike a bodysuit, it is typically looser
and more sheer, and may be designed to slip off from the shoulders, rather
than to open at the crotch. The teddy is normally worn for the seductive
look, rather than practical reasons.
Modern Teddy Styles
There are two main types of teddies available today: teddies designed for
visual appeal and teddies designed as practical clothing. Most modern
teddies fall into one of these two categories. Common teddy styles are
listed and explained below.
Traditional teddy: a loose-fitting teddy designed for visual appeal and to
show off the wearer's figure. Traditional teddies often use sheer or
partially sheer material. This is the style most people picture when they
think of a teddy.
Bareback teddy: a teddy with an open back. Bareback teddies typically
include one or more straps to provide bust support, so they can be worn
without a bra and give the wearer the appearance of a bare back. This
makes them an excellent undergarment choice for tops with open or
partially open backs.
Fashion top teddy: a teddy which combines a thong panty, bra and fashion
top. Fashion top teddies come in a wide variety of styles, from simple
styles with plain materials to very fancy styles with beads, crystals or
sequins. Fashion top teddies can be worn as fancy undergarments or as an
outer garment without a top over them.
Teddiette: a teddy with detachable garters.
Sleep teddy: a loose-fitting teddy designed as sleepwear. Sleep teddies
tend to use simpler materials and styles than teddies designed for visual
appeal.
Body briefer teddy: a fitted teddy designed for smoothing and shaping of
the wearer's figure. Body briefer's typically come in a variety of control
levels, achieved by using different materials or thicknesses of materials
in the body areas they are designed to control. Like sleep teddies, body
briefers tend to use simpler materials and styles than teddies designed
for visual appeal. Body briefers are also commonly referred to as "body
shapers" or "women's shapers".
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* Sexy fantasy lingerie is the kind of underwear, sleepwear, and other items of intimate apparel worn by women | |
* Sexy fantasy costume is a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, esp. that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period. | |
* Sexy fantasy underwear is a kind of clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes. | |
* Sexy fantasy pajama is a loose-fitting garment consisting of trousers and a jacket, worn for sleeping or lounging. Often used in the plural. | |
* Sexy fantasy boxer or boxer shorts, men's loose-fitting undershorts with an elastic waistband. | |
* Sexy fantasy babydoll, often, baby dolls. Also called baby doll nightgown, baby doll pajamas. a garment for women or girls consisting of a hip-length top of delicate fabric often decorated with ruffles, ribbons, or lace, with a matching panty, worn for sleeping. | |
* Sexy fantasy corset, sometimes, corsets, a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, esp. by women, to shape and support the body. | |
* Sexy fantasy catsuit is a tight-fitting one-piece garment for women usually made of leather or a synthetic fabric such as spandex and covering the torso, legs, and sometimes the arms. | |
* Sexy fantasy bodysuit, or body, is a leotard-like garment that may or may not have snaps at the crotch. It is usually skintight or formfitting and can have sleeves of any length or be made like a tank top. There are bodysuits for both females and males, | |
* Sexy fantasy bodystocking is an article of lingerie, similar to a leotard or a catsuit. It is much the same thing as a unitard, but the term bodystocking is likely to be preferred when the garment is worn as an underlayer in cold weather. It usually has long legs, but it may have long, short, or no sleeves. It is usually made from a sheer fabric similar to those used for stockings and tights, or from fishnet material. Some people consider bodystockings to be an erotic garment. | |
* Sexy fantasy funwear is a kind of wear, clothing, or costume for fun or games | |
* Sexy fantasy hosiery describes tight-fitting garments worn directly on the feet and legs. Most are made by knitting methods. Modern hosiery is usually tight-fitting by virtue of stretchy fabrics and meshes. Older forms include binding to achieve a tight fit. Due to its close fit, most hosiery can be worn as an undergarment, but it is more commonly worn as a combined under/outer garment. | |
* Sexy fantasy bra ( brassiere) is an article of clothing that covers, supports, and elevates the breasts. The bra is considered a foundation garment, as well as an undergarment, because of its role in shaping the wearer's figure. It was originally developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to replace the corset, and has now become, in many parts of the world, the most popular form of undergarment for the upper body, although camisoles and chemises are becoming more popular. | |
* Sexy fantasy panty is a kind of short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural) | |
* Sexy fantasy clubwear is a kind of fashion design, primarily in ready-to-wear lines, boyfriend is any style for women's clothing that was modified from a corresponding men's garment. Examples include boyfriend jackets and boyfriend jeans, which are more unisex in appearance than most women's jackets or pants while they are still designed for the female form. | |
* Sexy fantasy bustier (alternately bustier re) is an article of clothing for women, which is form-fitting and is traditionally worn as lingerie. It looks somewhat like a Basque, but a bustier is shorter. It reaches down only to the ribs or the waist and has a different function: its primary purpose is to push up the bustier by tightening against the upper midriff and forcing the breasts to move up, while gently shaping the waist. These days, it is often made with mesh panels rather than boning. The bustier is a multi-purpose garment and doubles up as a push-up bra for inner wear and as a camisole for outer wear. The bustier can also be worn as a half-slip under diaphanous upper garments if a bold display of the midriff is not desired. In modern days, women wear a bustier as an undergarment/push up bra in the occasion that their dress or outer-wear has a low-back. | |
* Sexy fantasy robe is a loose-fitting outer garment. A robe is distinguished from a cape or cloak by the fact that it usually has sleeves. The English word robe is borrowed from French, although in French it typically refers to a woman's dress. There are various types of robes, including: | |
* Sexy fantasy gown (medieval Latin gunna) is a (usually) loose outer garment from knee- to full-length worn by men and women in Europe from the early Middle Ages to the seventeenth century (and continuing today in certain professions); later, gown was applied to any woman's garment consisting of a bodice and attached skirt. | |
* Sexy fantasy teddy is a form of bodysuit-like lingerie, often worn in the boudoir. By definition, a teddy is an undergarment which combines a camisole and panty in one piece. Unlike a bodysuit, it is typically looser and more sheer, and may be designed to slip off from the shoulders, rather than to open at the crotch. The teddy is normally worn for the seductive look, rather than practical reasons. | |
* Sexy fantasy teddiettes is a loose-fitting teddy designed as sleepwear. Sleep teddies tend to use simpler materials and styles than teddies designed for visual appeal. | |
* Sexy fantasy chemise can refer to the classic smock or shift, or else can refer to certain modern types of women's undergarments and dresses. In the classical usage it is a simple garment worn next to the skin to protect clothing from sweat and body oils, the precursor to the modern shirts commonly worn in Western nations. | |
* Sexy fantasy pantyhose (also called tights) are sheer, close fitting coverings of the body from the waist to the feet, most frequently worn by women. Like stockings they are usually made of nylon. The one-piece pantyhose garment appeared in the 1960s and provided a convenient alternative to stockings (nylons). | |
* Sexy fantasy garters are items of clothing, used to keep stockings up. Normally just a few inches in width, they are usually made of leather or heavy cloth, and adorned with small bells and/or ribbons. In the 18th to 20th centuries, they were tied just below the knee, where the leg was skinniest, to keep the stocking from slipping. The advent of elastic has made them unnecessary from this functional standpoint, although they are still often worn for fashion. | |
* Sexy fantasy girdle originally meant a belt (or metaphorically speaking, something which confines or encloses, as in Tolkien's Girdle of Melian). In modern English the term "girdle" is most commonly used for a form of women's foundation wear that replaced the corset in popularity. | |
* Sexy fantasy halter top is a kind of woman's top, secured behind the neck and across the back, leaving the arms, shoulders, upperback, and often the midriff bare. | |
* Sexy fantasy knickers is a word for women's undergarments and there are now many names for the undergarments that previously have been called knickers, such as panties, thongs, g-strings, briefs, shorts, tangas, etc. Note that while the term 'knickers' refers almost exclusively to women's underwear, 'knicks', knick-knacks' and similar more masculine variations are acceptable monikers for men's underwear, particularly for young boys. | |
* Sexy fantasy g-string (alternatively gee-string or gee string) is a type of thong, a narrow piece of cloth, leather, or plastic that covers or holds the genitals, passes between the buttocks, and is attached to a band around the hips, worn as swimwear or underwear by both men and women. | |
* Sexy fantasy nightwear, also called "sleepwear", "nightclothes", or "nightdress", is clothing designed to be worn while sleeping. Nightwear usage is seasonal, i.e. different weights for different seasons or it is only worn in winter. | |
* Sexy fantasy basque is an item of women's historical apparel. The term, of French origin, can mean either a long corset or jacket characterised by a close, contoured fit and extending past the waistline over the hips. In Victorian outerwear, basque refers to a closely fitted jacket extending at the back past the waistline over the hips, to be worn over a bustle. In 20th century and contemporary attire, the term is used to refer to an article of lingerie, particularly a torso-hugging camisole that resembles a basque or corset (typically featuring decorative front or back lace-up detail), but of more delicate construction and offering little or no figure-molding compression. | |
* Sexy fantasy corsetry is craft of making corsets and corset-like garments and accessories most of which incorporate stays. It is also a subfield of fashion that deals with those garments and accessories and it is common term used for those garments and accessories. Term derives from the word corset. A special type of tailor who is an expert in corsetry is called corsetmaker. | |
* Sexy fantasy sleepwear is a kind of clothes, such as pajamas or a nightgown, worn in bed. Also called nightdress, nightwear, sleepwear | |
* Sexy fantasy briefs are a type of short, tight Y-shaped underwear and swimwear, as opposed to styles where the material extends down the legs. In the case of men's underwear, briefs, unlike boxer shorts, hold the wearer's genitals in a relatively fixed position, which makes briefs a popular underwear choice for men who are participating in athletic activities or who feel they need more support than loose-fitting underwear can provide. In addition, boxers often ride up the body when the wearer is running. | |
* Sexy fantasy bikini a very brief, close-fitting, two-piece bathing suit for women or girls. Often, bikinis. underwear briefs that are fitted low on the hip or below it. | |
* Sexy fantasy thong is a strip of material, esp. of leather or hide, used to fasten or secure something. Thong is also refered a shoe or slipper fastened to the foot chiefly by a strip of leather or other material passing between the first and second toes and often attaching to another strip of material, as a strap across the instep or around the ankle. The thong is a brief garment for the lower body that exposes the buttocks, consisting of a strip of fabric passing between the thighs and attached to a band around the waist. |
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* Hot exotic lingerie is the kind of underwear, sleepwear, and other items of intimate apparel worn by women | |
* Hot exotic costume is a style of dress, including accessories and hairdos, esp. that peculiar to a nation, region, group, or historical period. | |
* Hot exotic underwear is a kind of clothing worn next to the skin under outer clothes. | |
* Hot exotic pajama is a loose-fitting garment consisting of trousers and a jacket, worn for sleeping or lounging. Often used in the plural. | |
* Hot exotic boxer or boxer shorts, men's loose-fitting undershorts with an elastic waistband. | |
* Hot exotic babydoll, often, baby dolls. Also called baby doll nightgown, baby doll pajamas. a garment for women or girls consisting of a hip-length top of delicate fabric often decorated with ruffles, ribbons, or lace, with a matching panty, worn for sleeping. | |
* Hot exotic corset, sometimes, corsets, a close-fitting undergarment, stiffened with whalebone or similar material and often capable of being tightened by lacing, enclosing the trunk: worn, esp. by women, to shape and support the body. | |
* Hot exotic catsuit is a tight-fitting one-piece garment for women usually made of leather or a synthetic fabric such as spandex and covering the torso, legs, and sometimes the arms. | |
* Hot exotic bodysuit, or body, is a leotard-like garment that may or may not have snaps at the crotch. It is usually skintight or formfitting and can have sleeves of any length or be made like a tank top. There are bodysuits for both females and males, | |
* Hot exotic bodystocking is an article of lingerie, similar to a leotard or a catsuit. It is much the same thing as a unitard, but the term bodystocking is likely to be preferred when the garment is worn as an underlayer in cold weather. It usually has long legs, but it may have long, short, or no sleeves. It is usually made from a sheer fabric similar to those used for stockings and tights, or from fishnet material. Some people consider bodystockings to be an erotic garment. | |
* Hot exotic funwear is a kind of wear, clothing, or costume for fun or games | |
* Hot exotic hosiery describes tight-fitting garments worn directly on the feet and legs. Most are made by knitting methods. Modern hosiery is usually tight-fitting by virtue of stretchy fabrics and meshes. Older forms include binding to achieve a tight fit. Due to its close fit, most hosiery can be worn as an undergarment, but it is more commonly worn as a combined under/outer garment. | |
* Hot exotic bra ( brassiere) is an article of clothing that covers, supports, and elevates the breasts. The bra is considered a foundation garment, as well as an undergarment, because of its role in shaping the wearer's figure. It was originally developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to replace the corset, and has now become, in many parts of the world, the most popular form of undergarment for the upper body, although camisoles and chemises are becoming more popular. | |
* Hot exotic panty is a kind of short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural) | |
* Hot exotic clubwear is a kind of fashion design, primarily in ready-to-wear lines, boyfriend is any style for women's clothing that was modified from a corresponding men's garment. Examples include boyfriend jackets and boyfriend jeans, which are more unisex in appearance than most women's jackets or pants while they are still designed for the female form. | |
* Hot exotic bustier (alternately bustier re) is an article of clothing for women, which is form-fitting and is traditionally worn as lingerie. It looks somewhat like a Basque, but a bustier is shorter. It reaches down only to the ribs or the waist and has a different function: its primary purpose is to push up the bustier by tightening against the upper midriff and forcing the breasts to move up, while gently shaping the waist. These days, it is often made with mesh panels rather than boning. The bustier is a multi-purpose garment and doubles up as a push-up bra for inner wear and as a camisole for outer wear. The bustier can also be worn as a half-slip under diaphanous upper garments if a bold display of the midriff is not desired. In modern days, women wear a bustier as an undergarment/push up bra in the occasion that their dress or outer-wear has a low-back. | |
* Hot exotic robe is a loose-fitting outer garment. A robe is distinguished from a cape or cloak by the fact that it usually has sleeves. The English word robe is borrowed from French, although in French it typically refers to a woman's dress. There are various types of robes, including: | |
* Hot exotic gown (medieval Latin gunna) is a (usually) loose outer garment from knee- to full-length worn by men and women in Europe from the early Middle Ages to the seventeenth century (and continuing today in certain professions); later, gown was applied to any woman's garment consisting of a bodice and attached skirt. | |
* Hot exotic teddy is a form of bodysuit-like lingerie, often worn in the boudoir. By definition, a teddy is an undergarment which combines a camisole and panty in one piece. Unlike a bodysuit, it is typically looser and more sheer, and may be designed to slip off from the shoulders, rather than to open at the crotch. The teddy is normally worn for the seductive look, rather than practical reasons. | |
* Hot exotic teddiettes is a loose-fitting teddy designed as sleepwear. Sleep teddies tend to use simpler materials and styles than teddies designed for visual appeal. | |
* Hot exotic chemise can refer to the classic smock or shift, or else can refer to certain modern types of women's undergarments and dresses. In the classical usage it is a simple garment worn next to the skin to protect clothing from sweat and body oils, the precursor to the modern shirts commonly worn in Western nations. | |
* Hot exotic pantyhose (also called tights) are sheer, close fitting coverings of the body from the waist to the feet, most frequently worn by women. Like stockings they are usually made of nylon. The one-piece pantyhose garment appeared in the 1960s and provided a convenient alternative to stockings (nylons). | |
* Hot exotic garters are items of clothing, used to keep stockings up. Normally just a few inches in width, they are usually made of leather or heavy cloth, and adorned with small bells and/or ribbons. In the 18th to 20th centuries, they were tied just below the knee, where the leg was skinniest, to keep the stocking from slipping. The advent of elastic has made them unnecessary from this functional standpoint, although they are still often worn for fashion. | |
* Hot exotic girdle originally meant a belt (or metaphorically speaking, something which confines or encloses, as in Tolkien's Girdle of Melian). In modern English the term "girdle" is most commonly used for a form of women's foundation wear that replaced the corset in popularity. | |
* Hot exotic halter top is a kind of woman's top, secured behind the neck and across the back, leaving the arms, shoulders, upperback, and often the midriff bare. | |
* Hot exotic knickers is a word for women's undergarments and there are now many names for the undergarments that previously have been called knickers, such as panties, thongs, g-strings, briefs, shorts, tangas, etc. Note that while the term 'knickers' refers almost exclusively to women's underwear, 'knicks', knick-knacks' and similar more masculine variations are acceptable monikers for men's underwear, particularly for young boys. | |
* Hot exotic g-string (alternatively gee-string or gee string) is a type of thong, a narrow piece of cloth, leather, or plastic that covers or holds the genitals, passes between the buttocks, and is attached to a band around the hips, worn as swimwear or underwear by both men and women. | |
* Hot exotic nightwear, also called "sleepwear", "nightclothes", or "nightdress", is clothing designed to be worn while sleeping. Nightwear usage is seasonal, i.e. different weights for different seasons or it is only worn in winter. | |
* Hot exotic basque is an item of women's historical apparel. The term, of French origin, can mean either a long corset or jacket characterised by a close, contoured fit and extending past the waistline over the hips. In Victorian outerwear, basque refers to a closely fitted jacket extending at the back past the waistline over the hips, to be worn over a bustle. In 20th century and contemporary attire, the term is used to refer to an article of lingerie, particularly a torso-hugging camisole that resembles a basque or corset (typically featuring decorative front or back lace-up detail), but of more delicate construction and offering little or no figure-molding compression. | |
* Hot exotic corsetry is craft of making corsets and corset-like garments and accessories most of which incorporate stays. It is also a subfield of fashion that deals with those garments and accessories and it is common term used for those garments and accessories. Term derives from the word corset. A special type of tailor who is an expert in corsetry is called corsetmaker. | |
* Hot exotic sleepwear is a kind of clothes, such as pajamas or a nightgown, worn in bed. Also called nightdress, nightwear, sleepwear | |
* Hot exotic briefs are a type of short, tight Y-shaped underwear and swimwear, as opposed to styles where the material extends down the legs. In the case of men's underwear, briefs, unlike boxer shorts, hold the wearer's genitals in a relatively fixed position, which makes briefs a popular underwear choice for men who are participating in athletic activities or who feel they need more support than loose-fitting underwear can provide. In addition, boxers often ride up the body when the wearer is running. | |
* Hot exotic bikini a very brief, close-fitting, two-piece bathing suit for women or girls. Often, bikinis. underwear briefs that are fitted low on the hip or below it. | |
* Hot exotic thong is a strip of material, esp. of leather or hide, used to fasten or secure something. Thong is also refered a shoe or slipper fastened to the foot chiefly by a strip of leather or other material passing between the first and second toes and often attaching to another strip of material, as a strap across the instep or around the ankle. The thong is a brief garment for the lower body that exposes the buttocks, consisting of a strip of fabric passing between the thighs and attached to a band around the waist. |
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