Hoping to avoid a situation here, please let me interject ... my question was raised because I am currently working on some text regarding how to use clothing, and body handles are a feature that we find quite often in clothing nowadays. Now .. in order to get the history right, I posed the question because it was mentioned in another thread that there might be more history to it than I was aware of. I remembered the Egyptians outfit as the first product that I used with "body handles." I don't recall any others before that, as I got the two other products mentioned after the Egyptians. Anyway, I digress ... if we can keep the discussion centered around the history of how this came about, that would be great. I didn't raise the question to put anyone on the spot, I was just looking for some historical information. Thanks in advance for any positive contributions. 8-)