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slimwear

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Etymology

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From slim +‎ -wear.

Noun

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slimwear (uncountable)

  1. (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 […]
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