underclothing

“My socks had totally disappeared and so had most of my underclothing,” Roosevelt said.

La Corte also had to construct temple garments, the white underclothing worn by adult Latter-day Saints after they are endowed in the temple.

The book also profiles follies that never reached the market: anti-gravitation underclothing designed to keep wearers aloft and telegraph mechanisms that relied on snails slithering around zinc bowls to tap out letters.

In order to avoid lice, regular washing of underclothing and bed-linen is advocated.

And designed for all women is its newer Mother Tucker line of slimming underclothing using compression technology.