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Reported by David Beckwith/Washington and Janice C. Simpson/New York Munsingwear feels the pinch Inventor Knut Bjorn-Larsen might not have hollered "Eureka!" when he developed a garterless girdle back in 1965.

From Time Magazine Archive

He worries about his clothes, is a meticulous dresser despite a tendency toward garterless socks that droop.

From Time Magazine Archive

His shoes kicked lightly against the yellow oak wood, his sludge-brown socks, garterless, collapsed in sagging circles below ankles that were surprisingly small and white.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Her kitchen is spoken of in horrified whispers; her children, buttonless, garterless, mealless, stray about in all sorts of improper places and weather.

From Green Valley by Reynolds, Katharine