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The earliest known use of the word pantywaist is in the 1910s. OED's earliest evidence for pantywaist is from 1910, in the Lima News (Lima, Ohio). pantywaist is formed within English, by compounding.
Aug 9, 2017 · Here’s more on the history of activewear from fashion and apparel experts The Uniform Centre. Turn of the 20 th Century. People didn’t start playing sport for the sake of it until the late 19 th century. The first modern Olympics of 1896 involved upper class athletes in rudimentary clothing such as a basic t-shirt and a pair of shorts.
Jan 1, 2024 · As sports evolved from recreational activities to organized competitions, uniforms took on a more structured and symbolic role. The late 19th and early 20th centuries marked a turning point in ...
Aug 30, 2017 · Today, sports bras are a $7 billion industry worldwide. Not surprisingly, it was mostly female athlete/inventors who got us here. * * *. Almost without exception, the women of the first running ...
Jan 3, 2020 · panties (n.) 1845, "drawers for men" (derogatory), diminutive of pants with -ie. The meaning "underpants for women or girls" is recorded by 1908. The college prank panty raid is attested from 1952. waist (n.) late 14c., "middle part of the body," also "part of a garment fitted for the waist, portion of a garment that covers the waist" (but, due ...
Fast-forward a hundred years, and hardly anyone uses “union suit” or “pantywaist” to describe clothes. But “pantywaist” has endured, sometimes below the radar, as a mild slur, meaning someone who is weak; a sissy. It is almost universally applied to men. That insulting definition of “pantywaist” (sometimes hyphenated as “panty ...
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Aug 4, 2016 · Women on a tennis court, May 31, 1922. Nineteenth century America idealized white woman’s modesty, frowning on sports as a threat to elite females’ fertility. This double standard persisted long after slavery was abolished: elite women did not exert themselves; their (female) servants did. Yet there were few sporting outlets for poor women ...
