Today we’ll learn some vocabulary related to underwear.
– I know we’re twins, but it doesn’t mean we have to use identical nightgowns.
– You’re right. By the way, they’re extremely thin so that our panties are showing.
These panties look pretty nice, but which sister do you think should get them?
I’m wearing just a slip, and it’s slightly old-fashioned, so I don’t want you to see my face.
Monica usually puts a skirt on her half slip, but today it looks like she forgot.
Someone broke into our backyard and stole two pairs of long johns and a couple of underpants. They only left these three pairs of briefs. It looks like they had planned it all out.
Mr. Green got his wife this leather bra for their fiftieth wedding anniversary, but it turned out she now needs one with a C cup.
The man the police are looking for was seen walking in just his undershirt in Central Park.
Here’s the vocabulary summary:
| nightgown | a loose dress that is worn in bed especially by women and girls |
| panties | a piece of girl’s or woman’s underwear that covers the area between the waist and the top of the legs |
| slip | a piece of woman’s underwear that is like a thin dress or skirt and that is worn under a dress or skirt |
| half slip | a slip that only covers you from the waist down |
| long johns / long underwear | underwear that covers your legs and that is worn in cold weather |
| underpants | underwear that people wear on the lower part of their bodies |
| briefs | short underpants for men, women, or children that fit close to the body |
| bra / brassiere /brəˈziɚ/ | a piece of clothing that is worn by women under other clothes to cover and support the breasts |
| cup | either one of the parts of a bra that cover the breasts — used especially to describe the size of a bra |
| undershirt | a shirt that has no collar and sometimes no sleeves and that is worn as underwear |
