Small girls wore cotton drawers, cotton chemise, petticoats and stockings.
A cotton chemise and a pair of stays, used, from Jeremiah the peddler, and white cotton stockings, mended but still with good wear in them.
Only the beribboned cotton chemise lay between him and what he desired.
Morwith, still kneeling, her eyes lowered, slowly lifted the woollen gown over her head, then her cotton chemise.
It hung open, exposing her whole front, clad only in a thin white cotton chemise.
My brothers and sisters had accepted our parents' dictum, and had swum without their knowing it in our thin cotton chemises.
Two more underskirts followed, leaving only her skimpy cotton chemise.
There was a certain air of prurient interest, despite the fact she was covered from shoulders to toes in a cotton chemise, gathered drawers and plain, white stockings.
She wore wool next her skin, covered by her fine cotton chemise and the calico dress she'd bought from Lizzie.
She wore nothing but a thin white cotton chemise.