Ah, thankyou, you are correct, it is Garter, not girder. I did a little research myself, actually, and found that the single leg thing is not a garter belt, but just a garter- the belt is a larger, two legged thing, similar to modern underwear, that held up both stockings, while the garter came around later when women started wearing two seperate leggings instead of one big thing. Then, when women basically stopped wearing stockings at all in casual environments, they only sometimes kept it simply as a sexual thing.
There's a really disguisting story about how the tradition of the groom throwing the garter started. It involves a scotsman, a definately virgin bride, and a pair of scissors. That's all I'm going to say, because there are young'ns about.
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