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Girdles from the forties often had the ‘˜utility label’.
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Pan Am: Girdles support a message of female empowerment
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Girdles -- bodyshaping underwear -- have been around for at least a century, allowing women to trim up and slim down without actually hitting the gym.
What Lies Beneath 2008
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Girdles in all their various forms were not just popular, but necessary, for women wearing flowing fashions from the 1920s through the 1970s.
What Lies Beneath 2008
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Girdles certainly didn't arise in the 1920s because of sizing.
Why there are 20 different size 12s but nothing fits - A Dress A Day 2007
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Girdles for women that make similar claims retail for between 5,040 yen and 5,670 yen (about $44 to $50).
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Girdles don't get hot enough to cook anything edible.
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Pearles, Rings, Girdles, and other costly jewells (over-tedious to bee recounted) and kissing him once more as hee lay in the bedde, commanded the Magitian to dispatch and be gone.
The Decameron 2004
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Girdles of Buffe and all other leather, with gilt and vngilt buckles, specially waste girdles, waste girdles of veluet.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Girdles, back when women wore them at breakfast, to the market, to bridge, were suits of armor.
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