Sentence examples for foundation garment from inspiring English sources
noun
A garment designed to hold a part of the body in a particular form
Women embraced her light-weight girdle — once known as a foundation garment — as a body-shaping breakthrough.
Tricia Nixon Cox is shown in a "one-piece, sheer, elasticized lace bodysuit which doubles as a foundation garment and underwear".
Corset, article of clothing worn to shape or constrict the waist and support the bosom, whether as a foundation garment or as outer decoration.
The New Yorker, February 3 , 1940 P. 13At Stearns Department Store in Boston, a plump lady was trying on some sort of high-powered foundation garment.
The New Yorker, December 5 , 1942P. 13 "Now more than ever before, the selection of a foundation garment, is very important," says the advertisement in a magazine.
Mr. Cavalli, whose show last Monday was rife with corsets, some of them reining in billowing skirts, calls the obligatory Victorian foundation garment "the ultimate vanity".
Acne's shorts in white, dove grey or poppy red stretch jersey and with vintage foundation garment-style seaming whisper of the 1940s, if in a suitably purist and modishly Scandinavian way – Betty Grable meets Ingmar Bergman, perhaps.
His father founded a business manufacturing women's foundation garments.
In 1941 British women owned 1.2 "foundation garments", or bras, apiece, according to a government survey.
They're foundation garments, something that comes in between a boot and the skin.
By jove, I do heartily approve of your, um, silken foundation garments.
