The year was 1953 and if you were a woman, a night on the town meant either squeezing into a girdle or slipping on a garter belt .

We have inspected the rice and we're surprised to know that the weight is short.

People of every race and culture have gone to extremes in the name of beauty – from foot-binding in China, to dangerously constricting corsets in Victorian times, to nose jobs in 800 B.C. India.

Bet she wears those curse of God stays suspenders and yellow stockings, darned with lumpy wool.

The woman wrapped in a dirty-looking kashta bared her filthy, yellow teeth and grabbed my hand.