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  2. Garter - Wikipedia

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    Some women wore stockings with a plain elastic garter or narrow material tied tightly, not suspenders, or by simply rolling the top of the stocking, because it seemed more practical or they could not afford classic corsetry, thus creating a kind of predecessor of the modern hold ups. This was particularly common among servants and housemaids ...

  3. Stocking - Wikipedia

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    Also known as half-stockings, trouser socks, or socks. Matte: Stockings which have a dull or non-lustre finish. Mock seam: A false seam sewn into the back of a seamless stocking. Nude heel: Stockings without reinforcement in the heel area. Opaque: Stockings made of yarn which give them a heavier appearance (usually 40 denier or greater).

  4. Compression stockings - Wikipedia

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    The analysis determined that there was a 6% risk of developing deep vein thrombosis when wearing knee-high stockings and 4% when wearing thigh-high stockings, but also found significant heterogeneity, and thus it concluded that there is not enough evidence that one length is superior to the other, and suggests that knee-high compression ...

  5. Hold-ups - Wikipedia

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    A Woman wearing hold-up stockings A woman in Japan wearing white hold-ups, 2023. Hold-ups or stay-ups (in the United States also referred to as thigh-high stockings or simply thigh highs) [1] are stockings with an elasticized band at the top, designed to hold the stockings up when worn, without the use of a garter belt or garters.

  6. List of garments having different names in American and ...

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    One-piece loungewear garment worn by children and adults onesie [12] one-piece, jumpsuit, long johns Long sleeve and long legs one-piece garment for babies worn as sleep and everyday wear babygrow, [13] sleepsuit, [14] babygro [13] sleeper, [15] one-piece, pajamas, sleep and play Longsleeve or short sleeve one-piece outfit worn as everyday wear

  7. Girdle (undergarment) - Wikipedia

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    By 1970, the girdle was generally supplanted by the wearing of pantyhose (called tights in British English). Pantyhose replaced girdles for most women who had used the girdle as a means of holding up stockings; however, many girdle wearers continued to use a brief style panty-girdle under or on top of tights/pantyhose for some figure control.

  8. Hose (clothing) - Wikipedia

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    The outline of the legs were conspicuously shown, with the groin area sometimes covered by a material called a codpiece. However, unlike modern tights, these hose were not elastic; they were held firm while laced to the doublet and tied from small holes. [1] During the 14th century, medieval hoses were made of wool and were made to fit tightly.

  9. Pantyhose - Wikipedia

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    Pantyhose, sometimes also called sheer tights, are close-fitting legwear covering the wearer's body from the waist to the toes. Pantyhose first appeared on store shelves in 1959 for the advertisement of new design panties (Allen Gant's product, 'Panti-Legs') [1] as a convenient alternative to stockings and/or control panties which, in turn, replaced girdles.