# Do women still wear girdles? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 16, 2006, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035 "2006-05-16T22:54:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/21 "2006-05-17T15:16:00Z")
> [@cbawlmer](#): > > In old movies, I’ve heard references to something called a snood. What is that? From the context, I’ve gleaned that it was some sort of ladies’ undergarment or accessory. It’s female headgear, such as the stretchy cap used by married orthodox Jewish women to cover their hair. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/22 "2006-05-17T15:32:05Z")
> [@acsenray](#): > > It’s female headgear, such as the stretchy cap used by married orthodox Jewish women to cover their hair. Ok, I’ve seen those. I just never knew what they were called. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![theunfounddoor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@theunfounddoor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theunfounddoor)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/23 "2006-05-17T15:44:05Z")
This is wierd, I was just looking for a corset online before I came here and saw this thread. I have issues with body shapers I find they don’t stay up and I don’t like the body suits. A corset would be perfect if I could find one that isn’t a custome made $400 one. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/24 "2006-05-17T16:28:38Z")
Once a girlfriend and I swaped bras in a bar without anyone seeing much of anything by using the old bra out the shirt sleeve trick. Getting the bra back _IN_ the shirt sleeve was much harder. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/25 "2006-05-17T16:37:02Z")
> [@](#): > > Once a girlfriend and I swaped bras in a bar without anyone seeing much of anything by using the old bra out the shirt sleeve trick. Getting the bra back IN the shirt sleeve was much harder. Ummm… any particular reason you did this? Just curious. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/26 "2006-05-17T16:40:13Z")
Titillation? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tastes_of_chocolate/32/3232_2.png) [@Tastes\_of\_Chocolate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tastes_of_Chocolate)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/27 "2006-05-17T17:50:43Z")
> [@Lynn Bodoni](#): > > One of my Aunt Bodonis used to take her bra off once she got home…she just didn’t take her top off to do it. She’d slide the shoulder straps down out of her sleeves, slide her arms out of the straps, unhook her bra, reach into the front of her top, and pull out the bra. When I was living in college dorms, that was common practice. You’d get back from work/class/studying, sit down in the shared den (1 floor, 52 women, 1 den w/ TV), and slip off your bra. The place was too public to go topless, but otherwise darn informal. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/28 "2006-05-17T18:06:38Z")
One of these days I’ll have to wear shorts and _really_ stretchy underwear so I can pull off my undershorts in front of my wife without taking off my pants. ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/29 "2006-05-17T18:23:08Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > One of these days I’ll have to wear shorts and _really_ stretchy underwear so I can pull off my undershorts in front of my wife without taking off my pants. I’ll buy you lunch if you supply me with a video of the event. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/30 "2006-05-17T18:24:34Z")
> [@Risha](#): > > Ummm… any particular reason you did this? Because I can. ---
**Author:** ![Risha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/5fc32e/32.png) [@Risha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Risha)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/31 "2006-05-17T21:13:20Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **alice\_in\_wonderland** > > > [@](#): > > > > Quote: > > Originally Posted by Risha > > Ummm… any particular reason you did this? > > Because I can. Works for me. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/32 "2006-05-17T22:35:27Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > In damn close to 40 years of wearing a bra, I have never done that particular trick. It seems like way more trouble than it’s worth. Nope, not it all. In fact, I just did it right now. ---
**Author:** ![cbawlmer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/33 "2006-05-17T22:57:48Z")
Yeah, I do the bra trick almost every day when I get home. I plan on doing it within the hour, in fact. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/34 "2006-05-17T23:28:45Z")
I’ve done it at work, in crowded bars, on the school bus, at family functions…when the underwires start digging in, that baby is coming off, and I don’t care who sees. > [@theunfounddoor](#): > > This is wierd, I was just looking for a corset online before I came here and saw this thread. I have issues with body shapers I find they don’t stay up and I don’t like the body suits. A corset would be perfect if I could find one that isn’t a custome made $400 one. [Here’s](http://www.elizabethancostume.net/) a corset pattern generator (scroll down), if you know any seamstresses; just plug in your measurements. Google brings up a few similar sites. A friend and I used it to obtain corset patterns for our RenFest costumes. ---
**Author:** ![Faruiza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecd19e/32.png) [@Faruiza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Faruiza)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/35 "2006-05-17T23:37:21Z")
Frederick’s of Hollywood just put out a new line of corsets that are worth a little more than the 60 bucks they charge. For an off the rack piece of equipment, they’re pretty damn nice. GREAT fabric, mediocre boning. they will be especially helpful if you aren’t terribly lumpy to begin with. I’m pretty lumpy, and I wore one last saturday night with no serious problems. I sure in the HELL like my $400 dollar jobbies, better though. I’m spoiled like that. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/36 "2006-05-18T03:22:12Z")
> [@Marlitharn](#): > > I’ve done it at work, in crowded bars, on the school bus, at family functions…when the underwires start digging in, that baby is coming off, and I don’t care who sees. > > [Here’s](http://www.elizabethancostume.net/) a corset pattern generator (scroll down), if you know any seamstresses; just plug in your measurements. Google brings up a few similar sites. A friend and I used it to obtain corset patterns for our RenFest costumes. This pettern, however, is for an Elizabethian corset, which is designed to make you flat and tubular shaped. The ideal is a straight line from bust to hip, not what women today are looking for. If you’re going historic, then Edwardian corsets, with their hourglass shapes, are closer to the “natural” look in vogue today. [This pattern](http://www.farthingales.on.ca/silverado.php) by Laughing Moon is my favorite by far. I made my first Edwardian corset in an afternoon, and it’s the most comfortable undergarment I’ve ever worn. ---
**Author:** ![Sierra\_Indigo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f0a364/32.png) [@Sierra\_Indigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sierra_Indigo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/37 "2006-05-18T04:44:18Z")
I, too, do the bra out the sleeve trick. Though like **Aunt Bodoni** , I pull the bra through the front of the neck of my top when I’m done. ---
**Author:** ![GrannyNadine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@GrannyNadine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrannyNadine)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/38 "2014-07-19T15:55:13Z")
At 71 I am probably older than most of you so maybe my answer will seem a little trite. I was 12 when I got my first girdle and by 13 I was wearing one everyday. I have been through a lot of changes in ladies under fashions but one has remained constant throughout my life, a girdle. I know they are called shapers today and some are only really smoothers at best. I still wear an old fashioned girdle everyday. My husband appreciates and believe me after having 5 daughters this old body needs it. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/39 "2014-07-19T16:15:47Z")
Just to note that this thread is nine years old. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 19, 2014, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-women-still-wear-girdles/357035/40 "2014-07-19T16:59:03Z")
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