B.V.D.
Americanabbreviation
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B.V.D. gamely tried to stretch into sports shirts, sweatshirts and socks, gradually boggled in a complexity of products and styles that became more complicated to order and stock than to sell.
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But the Erlangers made B.V.D. probably the best-known initial-trademark in the world when they introduced a revolutionary type of one-piece men's "athletic underwear."
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Quite the happiest gallant e'er you did see, For next to his skin he has B.V.D.
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Plugged by its catchy slogan, "Next to myself, I like B.V.D. best," sales hit an estimated peak of 7,200,000 pairs a year in the mid-'20s.
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“I’m just wearing my usual. Starting from the bottom, I have B.V.D. briefs, size ten, one tee shirt...”
From "From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler" by E.L. Konigsburg
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