Garter & Girdle

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–noun 

1. Also called, British, sock suspender, suspender. an article of clothing for holding up a stocking or sock, usually an elastic band around the leg or an elastic strap hanging from a girdle or other undergarment. 



girdle

–noun 

1. a lightweight undergarment, worn esp. by women, often partly or entirely of elastic or boned, for supporting and giving a slimmer appearance to the abdomen, hips, and buttocks.



2. a similar band worn to hold up a shirt sleeve.

3. a leather strap for passing through a loop at the back of a boot and buckling around the leg to keep the boot from slipping.

4. British. 

a. the badge of the Order of the Garter.

b. membership in the Order.

c. (initial capital letter) the Order itself.

d. (usually initial capital letter) a member of the Order. 

 

–verb (used with object) 

5. to fasten with a garter.





　

In the 1950s a pretty girl from Nashville named Bettie Page became the most famous model of her time -- in certain circles. Marilyn Monroe followed a nude calendar photo into Hollywood stardom, but Bettie Page's fame was within the specialist market of pin-ups and bondage photography. 



She was tied, trussed, handcuffed, chained and restrained while wearing high heels, nylons, garter belts, corsets and pointy brassieres, or nothing much at all, and yet her posing was so unaffected and her attitude so cheerful that she was like sunshine in the dark world of porn.





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in black lace and [stiletto] heels, she domesticated fetishism and [flouted] the postal laws.

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