slimwear

English

Etymology

slim +‎ -wear

Noun

slimwear (uncountable)

  1. (dated, euphemistic) Fetishwear made from skintight materials such as latex.
    • 1966, Time & Tide (volume 47, issues 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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