Silky black girdle-structured leggings ($345) were nicely encasing, not unlike three consecutive pairs of Spanx.
There is an array of colorful party dresses, handbags, shoes, hats and wigs, but also slips, stockings, a black girdle, two brassieres and an embroidered blue corset of the kind known in French as a "guepiere".
His dodgy back is encased by a black elastic girdle that he wears, appearances be damned, outside his blue work shirt, like an oddball accessory, in keeping with the mini-magnifying glass that dangles from a hank of string slung around his neck -- he's an avid botanist, as the 10,000 pressed specimens in his Noyac basement, a collection he declares the South Fork's most extensive, attest.
Ms. Versace, practically girdled in black leather and cuffed in diamonds, wouldn't be anyone's idea of a birch-rapping schoolmarm.
This meant an opening passage of models in secretarial spectacles dressed in Mr. Galliano's deconstructed jackets that wrapped tightly -- ah, the hint of sex waiting to be unleashed -- over wisps of black chiffon mixed with girdle fabric and dangling garter straps.
On top of fishnets, I wore a black satin Dolce & Gabbana girdle one-piece that is cut across the thigh, includes a push-up bra and has a zip up the back.
On his head he wore a sky-blue satin scarf, and he was dressed in a stately sky-blue satin coat with a silken girdle, a pair of wide black trousers without crotch and satin boots with thin soles".
Ellis, who has been making horse saddles, bridles and girdles in the heart of the Black Country for the past 20 years, is worried that with no new blood coming into the sector and increasingly cheap imports from abroad, the industry could decline even further.
Jill Stuart missed the boat, though, with too many retro styles of pinup lingerie, including a miniskirt in girdle fabric with dangling garters and a black cotton eyelet dress flashing hot-pink underpinnings.
Poured into evening outfits that looked as if they were shot out of a can of black Silly String and then seemingly baked with a girdle of foil, his models definitely were more molten than glamorous.
