underthings

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Another, more eccentric retelling, Nicholas de Monchaux’s terrific book “Spacesuit,” from 2011, describes how Italian-American seamstresses, accustomed to making women’s underthings, made the astronauts’ overthings.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 20, 2019

Buyers can purchase packs of 3, 8, or 15 of these tags, depending on if you want to attach it to all your wardrobe staples, only your underthings, or just your workout wear.

From Slate • Nov. 16, 2017

Perhaps it was only a matter of time that expectant and nursing mothers sought out provocative underthings with distinctive details, a world away from the black T-shirt bra look-alikes sold at outlets like Destination Maternity.

From New York Times • Aug. 31, 2011

You may well laugh to the point of pee stains in your underthings, and if you think that's gratuitous you have no idea.

From Salon • Feb. 24, 2011

I quickly used the facility, slipped off my mittens to grab a piece of the Monkey Ward catalog to dry off, and hiked up my underthings.

From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson