Like the tight girdle - corset, basque, she didn't know how to describe the garment - the stockings were woven with Lycra to giving them a wet slippery look.

The blackness was full of images, her body, the tight black girdle, her labia, the feel of her panties in his teeth ... 'Three ...' He couldn't complete the word.

"There will be a lot of people in dark glasses and tight girdles on New Year's Eve," she said.

I asked the women how it felt to be sitting there in their tight girdles and not talking to their husbands whom they only see at these functions, but never at home in the bedroom.

He had tried everything from tight girdles to tell-all books, from multicolored hair to catchy tattoos.

Either she wore a tight girdle, or she had lost fifteen pounds.

From the time she missed her first period, long before she ever began to swell up, she started wearing tighter and tighter and tighter girdles, then one girdle on top of another.

They were naked except for heavy padded collars, bulky mattress-like gloves, a tight girdle around the waist.

Weak and sick, pain encircling her like a tight girdle, she wanted to sleep for a hundred years.