11.   It made wearing conventional stockings and garter belts rather difficult for women wearing a thigh-high skirt while attempting to retain some sense of modesty.

12.   No one would dare expose garter belts under short skirts, except Madonna ... two decades later.

13.   Novak had been found hanging from his closet door, wearing a garter belt and stockings.

14.   One ad shows a bride climbing out of a limousine, clutching her bouquet and revealing a garter belt decorated with the Bloomberg logo.

15.   She then comes out with black stockings and a garter belt.

16.   So would the Wicked Witch of the West, if she were secretly sporting a garter belt.

17.   Shops sell everything from bras, shoes and slips to ring pillows, garter belts and champagne glasses at steep markups.

18.   What if my dress, a slippery satin, slid up when I sat down and the garter belt showed?

19.   Prosecutors said she once climbed atop a patient and straddled him, apparently so Perrault could see her garter belt.

20.   Garter belts looked like leather gun holsters, boldly worn outside the skirts.