Gorostiza is comparing Novo to an azotea, where linen hangs out in the sun to dry; a space where private garments are made public – at least to those who live in other azoteas.
Why a woman of her impeccable proportions would need a girdle is hard to fathom, but women were expected to wear elaborate private garments under their public clothes, not matter how firm and shapely their flesh.
I know nothing about her other than those things, and that my private garments get noticeably more moist when I'm watching her in something, which means that I must want to have sex with her.
In my family, one branch was in the (private) ladies' garment workers' union, the other branch was in the (public) teachers' union.
Eventually, I found Luis Antonio Torres, an intensely dapper fellow who grew up in California but now lives in Saigon, where he runs a business making private-label garments for brands such as Barneys New York and United Arrows.
Private investor, former garment industry leader, World War II hero, Columbia University graduate.
Yet, they are completely unlined and paired with black underthings, revealing to us the private, intimate, even sexual, garments of womanhood.
'I lay with sweet enrapture garments across most private thoughts,' he continued.
Lesotho's largest private employer is the textile and garment industry - approximately 36,000 Basotho, mainly women, work in factories producing garments for export to South Africa and the US.
