foundation garment
Example Sentences
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Modesty required that the black tulle skirts and embroidered tulle dresses worn by Dior’s budding feminist posse be worn with some sort of foundation garment.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2016
For some, the same pressure to appear physically perfect that’s caused Photoshop to run rampant in magazine offices has led to more widespread use of CGI as a kind of foundation garment.
From The Verge • Aug. 5, 2015
Accept that it is no longer possible to cause a ferocious fracas simply by removing a foundation garment and setting fire to it.
From Slate • Nov. 24, 2014
Women embraced her light-weight girdle — once known as a foundation garment — as a body-shaping breakthrough.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2012
When the word corset became unpopular, corset-makers shrewdly substituted the "foundation garment."
From Time Magazine Archive
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
