liberty bodice BrE
emancipation bodice BrE
emancipation waist AmE

The girl was standing in bloomers and liberty bodice.

While P to V meant access to the inside of a liberty bodice.

Where is your vest and your liberty bodice?

A liberty bodice; the smooth intimacy of its neat rubber buttons and tabs.

Later the liberty bodice came to be thought of as something practical for a child who could be buttoned up warmly.

And your liberty bodice.

To him, a schoolmistress was a crusty Old Maid in a liberty bodice and lisle stockings.

Commissions of her work have included book illustrations such as in the autobiography Life in a Liberty Bodice.

Liberty bodice.

She said, with satisfaction, that she had never made the mistake of the other English wives and forced me into liberty bodices and starched frocks.

Sheila, wriggling her shoulders in her Liberty bodice, said: 'I do itch.'

A liberty bodice was a simply-shaped sleeveless bodice, often made of warm, fleecy fabric, usually with suspenders (US garters) attached.

Ronnie was out of his few clothes and splashing in the water in a few seconds; Sheila got into a tangle with her Liberty bodice and had to be helped.

My finishing-school clothes list: One pair plimsolls, one pair best silk stockings, one Liberty bodice, amen, we give Thee most humble and hearty thanks, we Thine unworthy servants.

The Beeb liked the cut of 'trad jazz' 's jib; it was safe, it was old, it was uncontaminated by ideology, it was never going to set anyone's liberty bodice on fire.

Burniston inherited both her mother's liberal ideals and breadth of vision about the value of education and enjoyed a carefree but disciplined upbringing, later described in her autobiography Life in a Liberty Bodice.

I looked naked under the lace (the desired effect), but in fact 'M' always makes built-in underwear out of fine flesh-coloured fabric with several linings of asbestos and a Liberty bodice under the lot for good measure.

While some writers discuss liberty bodices as a restrictive garment imposed on children, these bodices were originally intended to "liberate" women from the virtually universally-worn, heavily-boned and firmly-laced corsets that were the norm of contemporary fashion.

The emancipation or liberty bodice offered an alternative to constricting corsets, and in Australia and the UK the liberty bodice became a standard item for girls as well as women.

The concept was related to the Women's Emancipation Movement, but in practice some of the early liberty bodices in the UK were advertised for maids who would be freer to get on with their work without a constricting corset.

The liberty bodice (Australian and British English), like the emancipation bodice or North American emancipation waist, was an undergarment for women and girls invented towards the end of the 19th century, as an innovative alternative to a corset.

Under the dark blue pleated skirt and the white drawers, brown woollen stockings were anchored to a liberty bodice; under the bodice and the Jaeger combinations, long-sleeved, Aunt Tossie could see the hairless breastless body of a child.

Liberty bodices are famously associated with R. & W. H. Symington of Market Harborough, Leicestershire, but the name had already been used before they made their first bodice: a version for girls aged 9 -13 which sold for one shilling and nine pence-halfpenny in 1908.

Dress reformers also promoted the emancipation waist, or emancipation bodice, as a replacement for the corset.

The emancipation bodice was a tight sleeveless vest, buttoning up the front, with rows of buttons along the bottom to which could be attached petticoats and skirt.

The liberty bodice (Australian and British English), like the emancipation bodice or North American emancipation waist, was an undergarment for women and girls invented towards the end of the 19th century, as an innovative alternative to a corset.

Dress reformers also promoted the emancipation waist, or emancipation bodice, as a replacement for the corset.

The liberty bodice (Australian and British English), like the emancipation bodice or North American emancipation waist, was an undergarment for women and girls invented towards the end of the 19th century, as an innovative alternative to a corset.