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She went on stage as herself - Lloyd Ecker says - wearing an overtight dress and three-inch heels.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2016

In action there would be men enough to handle it, but even the work of many hands should not be impeded by overtight fittings and needless frictions.

From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by Stoddard, W. O.

I could not help expecting an explosion at any moment, or, at all events, a rent in my overtight skin!

From Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm by Landor, Arnold Henry Savage

It also disdains that of our dressmakers, who split the overtight garment and let in a piece of suitable width between the edges of the opening.

From The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander