Consequently there was a grand display of legs and arms and spinal columns and shoulders and patella and torsos, to say the least. Some of the beach queens were getting don to the fig leaf proposition and fig leaves this season are quite small. Last year the matter was left to the conscience of the bathers, but it was discovered that some of them had no conscience at all, or one composed of gutta porcha, so something had to be done about it. From ' Fringe Sewed on Beach Queens Who Lack Conscience,' in the Strand (August 20, 1921):Д¬hicago.-Censors at the bathing beaches in Chicago, just now densely populated with gay crowds have solved the problem of dealing with girls who are a trifle shy on clothes. Natch-il-a-tilly was magnificently attired with a g string around her waist with some suggestions of faded magnificence suspended therefrom.ДЄs for the transition between geestring as a breechclout and G-string as striptease accoutrement, a newspaper instance of 'gee string' from 1921 may provide a missing link. From ' Society Report,' in the Arizona Silver Belt (July 16, 1881): With regard to the question of the connection between geestring and G-string, it is noteworthy that G string appears as early as 1881 as spelling variant for geestring. On the transition from 'geestring' to G-string' I will run some database searches into those questions and add to this answer if I find anything interesting. dance-art enthusiasts call the genital covering used by striptease artists a G-string? (3) what connection is there between the nineteenth-century 'gee string' and the 1930sвЂ“present 'G-string'? settlers on the Great Plains in the 1870s call the rawhide band used to hold a Native American's loincloth in place a 'geestring'? (2) why did U.S. So your question about the origin of G-string might actually be separated into three distinct questions: (1) why did U.S.

One burlesque company of the day proudly advertised 'two tons of women' and had only 20 strippers. The burlesque G-string is of course far smaller than the Indian variety and must have seemed even skimpier a century ago, considering the Brunhildean builds of yesterday's ecdysiasts. Perhaps the g i is just a euphemistic shortening of 'groin,' an indecent word at the time. But even the heavies of violin strings wouldn't really do the job. It could be that some fiddler in the West compared the heaviest of violin strings, the G string, to the length of sinew or gut the Indians tied around their waists to hold up their breechclouts. G-string is an Americanism first used to describe an Indian's loin cloth or breechclout in the 19th century. G-string Stripteasers, who sometimes call this a 'gadget,' aren't responsible for the word. Gee string or G-string n phr or n fr middle 1800s A breech-cloth, or brief covering for the genitals, worn especially by striptease dancers: Thus the G-string became an integral part of a stripper's apparatus -Toronto Life ДЇrom Robert Hendrickson, The QPB Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins, fourth edition (2008): Presumably, when she tossed the apparatus on her dressing table one night it fell in the shape of a 'G.' see CHICAGO G-STRING ДЇrom Robert Chapman, New Dictionary of American Slang (1986):

Ann Corio claims that the term was originated by early striptease artist Carrie Finnell. G-string: A thin strip of cloth passed between the legs of a stripteasrs and supported by a waist cord or band.

1948 Time 5 April 12/3 The American Airlines' lost & found department was looking interestedly for whatever party had lost a case of beer, an automatic back-scratcher, three burlesque-type G-strings, a strait jacket.ДЇrom Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment: A Glossary of Argot, Slang and Terminology (1981): 36/2 Some of the boys wore only 'G-strings' (as for some reason the breech-clout is commonly called on the prairie). 1878 BEADLE Western Wilds 249 Around each boy's waist is the tight geestring from which a single strip of cloth runs between the limbs from front to back. Gee string, a breechclout or breech-cloth. Here are some discussions of the quustion in various reference works.ДЇrom Mitford Mathews, A Dictionary of Americanisms on Historical Principles (1951): Opinions about the origin vary, which is a sign that no one really knows the answer.

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