Talk:Garter

message: When my brother returned after graduating Marine Corps bootcamp, he pointed out the garters that were part of the dress blues. As far as I know, all marines wear garters while wearing their dress blues. I would assume the same for other military dress uniforms. This article is very female centered. 68.188.31.26 (talk) 18:20, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What is this guy wearing on his knees? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Richard_Sackville_Earl_of_Dorset.jpg Are those a kind of garter? Do they have a particular name, or should I just call them "ludicrous garters"? 213.122.2.194 (talk) 12:27, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Men and garters

message: I would strongly recommend that the first photo in this article should be replaced with something showing a model wearing mid-20th-century briefs ("granny panties").  This would provide a much more accurate historical illustration of how a garter belt was worn at that time:  it was a very utilitarian part of most Western women's wardrobes — not by any means confined to the world of erotic strip-tease as is generally the case now — and "granny" (even in her younger days) almost certainly didn't own a thong and wouldn't have been caught dead wearing one.  Richwales (talk) 06:05, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change the first photo 

message: "Garters were ... a convenient way for ladies to carry small valuables, in place of a small purse."
Really?  Doesn't sound very convenient - or modest - to have to lift your skirt up to get at something.
I think the image is not good evidence, by it's own caption she carries her flask there because it was prohibited and therefore a bit naughty and a bit secret.  Hiding a flask in the Prohibition is not evidence that women everywhere carried valuables generally on their garters.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.108.239.97 (talk) 18:39, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
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message: The information provided on the Order of the Garter section contains much that is simply speculation and unhistorical. The claim that it is "more likely" to originate in military use is completely unsubstantiated and finds no clear origin in the historical record to my knowledge (or at least as much as the story of the Countess of Salisbury). This part of the section should probably just be deleted or they should both be referenced as stories originating long after the order was actually formed. 82.17.10.32 (talk) 17:55, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order of the Garter