under-dress

The under-dress or petticoat/slip was made from the short sleeved view of the New Look pattern, pictured below.

Alfred Augustus Glendening 1861-1903 2009

For instance, buy-side executives, as Wall Street's consumers, can afford to under-dress the sell-siders, who are more often expected to suit up to help close a sale.

Cracking the Hedge-Fund Dress Code for Women 2009

Every common ruffian-looking fellow, with a slouched hat, blanket cloak, dirty under-dress, and soiled leather leggins, appeared to me to be speaking elegant Spanish.

Californio Spanish 2005

There is no underclothing, with its bands, frills, gussets, and button-holes; the poorer women wear none, and those above them wear, like Yuki, an under-dress of a frothy-looking silk crepe, as simply made as the upper one.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

From her limitless stores of apparel she chose what she considered a suitable dress for me — an under-dress of sage green silk crepe, a kimono of soft, green, striped silk of a darker shade, with a fold of white crepe, spangled with gold at the neck, and a girdle of sage green corded silk, with the family badge here and there upon it in gold.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

The wife of Saigo, the Minister of Education, called one day in an exquisite Japanese dress of dove-coloured silk crepe, with a pale pink under-dress of the same material, which showed a little at the neck and sleeves.

Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

‘You shall have a dress of green, that leaves the arms bare, and a white under-dress with blue flowers.’

The Plumed Serpent 2003

Then she put on another of the slips with the inverted blue flowers that had been laid on the bed for her, and over that a dress of green, hand-woven wool, made of two pieces joined openly together down the sides, showing a bit of the white, full under-dress, and fastened on the left shoulder.

The Plumed Serpent 2003

So as they clustered thickly about him he smiled on them pleasantly, and hardly felt the first sword blade as it sheared through his leather under-dress, slid between two ribs, and kept on going.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

Tossing his sword, helmet, and cuirass to his servant, he mounted his horse clad in his leather under-dress and rode straight to the Forum Romanum, carrying the shaft before him like a lance.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991