The incongruities begin when she slips into her work clothes: an apron and a long cloth dress worn over a petticoat and a cotton undershirt.

He was dark, wore thick horn-rimmed glasses, and dressed for guests wearing only one of those white cotton diapers like Gandhi used to wear and a threadbare white cotton sleeveless undershirt.

A white cotton undershirt is often worn underneath the cheongsam.

Sweat dripped from his nose and his cotton undershirt was soaked.

I was required to wear a white cotton undershirt wherever I went, lest I catch a chill from one of those "drafts" which, as any former Yugoslav will tell you, often cause sudden death.

These were a crew-necked, short-sleeved, white cotton undershirt to be worn under a uniform.

Groping in a drawer, she pulled out a cotton undershirt and yanked it over her head.

Spread next to it were a soiled diaper, a cotton undershirt with crotch snaps, a long-sleeved sweater, and a pair of white socks.

He kept fidgeting with his white cotton undershirt as if trying to get warm.

"The cotton undershirt for the 90's is basically a functional garment, symbolic of modernism in clothes, with no reference to historic romanticism," says Harold Koda.