a fashionable dress, worn just above the waist on top of the main dress. It was typically up to about eight inches high, and often terminated in a "V" shape. It might be the same colour as the main dress or not. It differs from the earlier Swiss waist of the mid-19th century by not having lacing or boning.

History

thumbThe men among the Greeks and Romans wore the girdle upon the loins, and it served them to confine the tunic,

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