slimwear
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slimwear (uncountable)
- (dated, euphemistic) Fetishwear made from skintight materials such as latex.
- 1966, Time & Tide, volume 47, numbers 27-43, page 132:
- LATEX RUBBER SLIMWEAR and Leatherwear carefully made to measure.
- 1968, Rod and Gun in Canada, volumes 70-71, page 68:
- SLIMWEAR AND RUBBERWEAR. Catalogues $1.
- 1996, Nick Sinclair, David Mellor, Anthony Shelton, The Chameleon Body: Photographs of Contemporary Fetishism:
- Perhaps more surprisingly for the 1960s, hidden under the euphemism of slimwear, ski-clothes, skin-diving suits, riding macs and rubber sheeting, fetish clothing was already being widely advertised in the Sunday press […]