"Will you send underclothing to Eliza Wilkin … with money for her to get a wam bath – or two would be better – and instructions when to do so, that she may be perfectly clean and wholesome; and make an appointment to call for her.
Especially favoured in the 15th century as embellishment for underclothing, whitework, sometimes known as filet lace, a forerunner of real lace, was crafted by mounting strips of fine-gauge mesh in light wire frames and embroidering them for use as edgings and insertions.
In the 16th century that type of bodice became a separate article of underclothing, laced together either in front or in back and eventually supported throughout with strips of a firm material such as wood, bone, or horn between two layers of fabric.
A child may associate clothing, especially underclothing, stockings, and shoes with gender and sex and thereby establish the basis for later fetishism or transvestism.
One case that I read about with special interest but that dropped rapidly out of the newspapers involved a tall, fair young man dressed in a woman's gown and underclothing, who was found hanging upside down from a trellis in the ruins of a bombed-out building, his hands tied behind his back and his ankles lashed together with one end of the rope that, looped around his neck, had strangled him.
But as Atikleura insisted, and his wife, Nalungia, showed the most complete indifference as to what I did, I quickly made my decision, seated myself on the form, veiled my charms as well as I could with the bed clothes, and was soon clad in Atikleura's still warm underclothing.
Knowing that these would keep him warm in the Arctic, Amundsen hinted that he would greatly appreciate some undergarments: Evidently very pleased at my request he now brought out some old, worn underclothing, put them on in place of those he was wearing, and handed me the latter with every indication that I was to change there and then.
Need special underclothing and padding.
Meanwhile, researchers in France are developing special male underclothing to raise the testes snug against the body and elevate their temperature, in effect cooking the sperm so that they are infertile.
But those players are forbidden from revealing underclothing bearing personal and heartfelt messages to their loved ones at a time of extreme emotion.
When Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's men raided a Union supply depot, "sumptuous underclothing was fitted over limbs sunburnt, sore and vermin-splotched".
